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Qiiercns virens. — The Live Oak. C.S.Sargent. (Garden and 

 Forest, i., 476, fig. 74.) 



Report of the Botanist New \ork State Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. Chas H. Peck. (41st Ann. Rep. Trustees, 1887, pp. 

 51-122; four illustrations.) 



Mr. Peck's present report contains much information of in- 

 terest and value not alone to New York botanists, but to all. 

 Enumeration is made of twenty-six species of flowering plants 

 not before recorded as growing within the State, most of them 

 introduced, but including Aster junceus ; Salix amygdaloides ; 

 Potamogeton Zizii ; P. Hillii : Panicum nervosum; Deyeuxia 

 Porteri and Eatoina Dudleyi, all detected in the Western coun- 

 ties by Professor Dudley. Besides these, there are a great num- 

 ber of Fungi, fifty-two of them described as new, all collected by 

 the indefatigable State botanist himself, mainly in the Adirondack 

 region. Mr. P. H. Dudley contributes one of his important arti- 

 cles on fungi destructive to timber. Not the least valuable chap- 

 ter is an index to the species mentioned in the Museum Reports 



Nos. 22 to i^. The growth of the herbarium at Albany is evi- 



denced by the statement that specimens of 170 species were 

 added during 1887, of which number 105 were previously un- 

 represented. 



■ztic Plants from Honduras. J. S. 

 Sci., xxxvi., 342-351 ; one plate.) 



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Rubiaceen Siidamerikas. — Ueher eittige verkannte oder tvenig 

 gekannte Geschlechte der. Karl Schumann. (Engler's Bot. 

 Jahrsb., x., 302-363.) 



A long discussion of the Hmitations and relations of a large 

 number of genera in Rubiaceae. 



Scale- Flowers. {Mutista vicicefolia, Cav.) H. H. Rusby 

 (Druggists' Bulletin, Dec. 1888, with cut.) 



Shortia.— The story of. C. S. Sargent (Garden and Forest, 

 i., 506, fig. 80.) 



Strasshurg and its Botanical Laboratory. Wm. R. Dudley. (Bot. 

 Gazette, xiii., 305-311.) 



Synopsis of the Medical Botany of the United States. J. M. 



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