494 KECORD OF SCIENCE FOR 1887 AND 1888. 



"New or rare plants," by Dr. Gray (Bot. Gaz., xiii), is the best con- 

 tribution of tbe Nestor of American botany. It enumerates only four 

 species. The Botanical Gazette, xii, has an account of "An excursion 

 to the Platte," by Thompson ; " Proteogyne in Datura meteloicles," by 

 Schueck; " Fertilization of Calopogon parvifiorus," by Robertson. Vol. 

 XIII contains " Notes on North American willows," by Bebb ; " Notes 

 on the Flora of James Bay," by Macoun ; "A New Water Lily" [Castalia 

 Leihergi) from the Northwest; "Phacelia heterosperma, n. sp.," by 

 Parish; "Notes on Carex, No. ix," by Bailey; "Notes on some Illinois 

 Grapes," by Schneck (six species are enumerated); "Prunus pumila in 

 North Carolina," by Memmiuger ; " Notes on Western Umbellifera^," by 

 Coulter and Eose; "Erigeron Tweedy i, u. sp.," from Southwestern Mon- 

 tana, by Canby; " Undescribed Plants from Guatemala," by Smith. 



The Torry Bulletin, vol. xiv, contains many articles. Among them 

 are "Bibliographical notes on well-known plants," by Green; "A 

 supposed new genus of Anacardiace;e {Sycocarpus),''' by Britton, "The 

 Genera Echinocystis Migarrhiza and Echinopepon," by Watson; "A 

 new variety of Aralia nudicauli i.," by Apgar ; " Note on Sarracenia 

 variolaris," by Pierce ; vol. xv, contains the following : 



" Sherardia arvensis," by Meehau ; "Remarks on the Group Caro- 

 linefe of the genus Rosa," by Best, describes Bosa liumilis Marshall, and 

 the varieties lucida and villosa ; " Studies in the Typhacea^," by Morong; 

 " Re-discovery of Nympluva elegans. Hook., by Stearns, reports this 

 beautiful species from Waco, central Texas, where it has remained 

 unique since it was first collected by Wright in 1849 ; " New or Note- 

 worthy North American Phanerogams," by Britton ; and Bebb has an 

 article on " White Mountain Willows." 



A number of papers on grasses and cyperacea? have appeared, of which 

 we may mention " Grasses of North America for Farmers and Stu- 

 dents," by W. J. Beal. It contains chajiters "on the structure, form, 

 and development of the grasses, power of motion, plant growth, classi- 

 fication, native grazing lands, grasses for cultivation, early attempts to 

 cultivate grasses, testing seeds, grasses for pastures and meadows, 

 preparation of the soil, care of grass laud, etc." It will be followed by 

 a second volume, which will contain descriptions of the North American 

 species. Flint's well-known "Grasses and Forage Plants," has been 

 revised and a new edition published during the year. Vasey has papers 

 on "Eedfieldia, a New Genus of Grasses," "New Western Grasses," and 

 " New or Rare Grasses," in Torr. Bull., and a " Synopsis of the Genus 

 Panicum," in Bot. Gaz., xiii. Scribner has notes on " New or Little- 

 known Grasses," in Torr. Bull., xv, and Beal on " The Rootstocks of 

 Leersia and Muhlenbergia," in Am. Nat., xxii. Websteria, a new genus 

 in Cyperacecv, is described by Wright (Torr. Bull., xv), from Valusia 

 County, Florida. The i)lant is entirely submerged. 



The American Naturalist has short articles, by Bessey, on " The East- 

 ward Extension of Pinus ponderosa, var. scorjmlorum,''^ '' The Western 



