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Diatoms and other Alg(E of New Haven Harbor and adjacent 

 Waters. — Wm. A. Terry. (Amer. Month. Micros. Journ., ix., 



225-227.) 



An interesting contribution to our knowledge of the diatoma- 

 ceae of Long Island Sound. It is to be hoped that the author 

 will continue his researches and follow this paper with a complete 

 catalogue of species. C. H. K, 



DicecisfH in Andropogon provincialis. — A. A. Crozier. (Bot. 

 Gazette, xiii., 302.) 



Flora of the vicinity of San Francisco, — By H. H. Behr, M.D., 

 Prof of Botany in the California College of Pharmacy. 



Want of originality is a fault which certainly can never be 

 charged against the author of this book. A Linnaean key to the 

 generi contrasts strangely enough with the most modern ideas in 

 the treatment of some portions of his subject. We note partic- 

 ularly the brief diagnostic descriptions of species which render it 

 possible to produce a convenient little hand-book. With all its 

 faults of arrangement, the work must be found a great conven- 

 ience to those who wish to carry their key into the field with 



them. 



H. H. R. 



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Fossil Plants — Evidence of the, as to the age of the Potomac For- 

 mation. — Lester F. Ward. (Amer, Jour, Sci., xxxvi,, 119- 



131- 

 Fungi which kill insects. — Otto Lugger. (Exp. Sta. University 



of Minnesota, Bull. No. 4, 26-41, nine figures.) 



Grbnland's Vegetation. — Eug. Warming. (Engler's Bot. Jahr., 

 X., 364-409.) An exhaustive account of the character and 

 distribution of the Flora of Greenland. 



Guatemala. — Undescribed plants from. — John Donnell Smith. 

 (Bot. Gazette, xiii., 299, 300; two plates.) Hanburia parvi- 

 Jlora and Galea irichotonia are described. 



Heather in Townsend^ Mass, — George L. Goodale. (Amer. 

 Journ. Sci., xxxvi., 295-296.) Another locality for Calliina 

 vulgaris is reported, discovered by Mr. Ralph Ball. Dr. 

 Goodale presents conclusive evidence that it was introduced 

 from Europe some twenty years ago. 



