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Mr. Anderson records the offensive odor emanating from the 

 flowers of this species. 



PenUtenion roiundifolius. Sereno Watson. (Garden and For- 

 est, i., 472, fig. 73.) C. G. Pringle. (1. c, 496.) 



Pharmaceutical Habitat Map of France. P. W. Bedford. (Pharm. 

 Rec, Dec. 15, 1888.) 



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This is one of the most carefully prepared and instructive 

 things of its kind that we have seen. Its practical value is en- 

 hanced by an alphabetical descriptive index on p. 393. Unfor- 

 tunately there are quite a number of typographical errors. 



H. H. R. 



Primula Rtishyi, Greene. J. D. Hooker. (Bot Mag. t 7,032.) 



Comparing this species with P, Parryi, Sir Joseph Hooker 



remarks that judging from dried specimens and the figure before 



us, the flowers are not, as stated by Mr. Greene, so large nor 



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brightly colored as those of the latter species. While this is un- 

 questionably true, yet the discrepancy is not so great as would 

 seem from this figure. The plant appears, like so many of our 

 Primulacese, to vary considerably. The figure displays a plant 

 taller and more slender, and with more numerous and narrower 

 flowers, the color less vivid and the eye less prominent, than in 

 the specimens that I collected in the Mogollon Mountains. Of 

 these specimens Mr. Greene received the largest and showiest. 

 It is clear that neither the plants collected by Mr. Pringle, 

 nor those of Mr. Lemmon, had such well developed flowers as 

 those of the type. There are other characters besides the size of 

 the flowers which make Parry's species more attractive in its na- 

 tive habitat. It grows three or four times as tall, and in masses 

 or rows among the rocks, these presenting patches of brilliant 

 bloom. On Mt. Humphreys, where I collected it July 3, 1883, 

 I was obliged to dig through several inches of snow to secure the 

 roots. The P. Rusbyi^ on the other hand, grows scattered over 

 rich Hghtly wooded hill-sides, and is a much less luxuriant 



grower. 



H. H. R. 



Protococcus — An elementary Study in Biology, Henry L. Os- 

 born. (Amer. Month. Micros. Journ., ix., 183- 186, fourteen 



figures. 



