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Index to Recent American Botanical Literature. 



Adiantuni pedatiDH (Garden, xxxv. 105, illustrated.) 



Botanic Garden in New York — Proposed Public. (Med. Rec. 

 xxxv, 129, 130.) An appeal for the project from a medical 

 standpoint. 



Botanical Garden — The New York. — H. H. Rusby. (Pharm. 

 Rec. IX. 41.) The importance of a botanical garden for the 

 pharmacist is specially urged. 



Botany in the University of Pennsylvania. (Bot. Gazette, xiv. 

 1-5 ; five plates.) 



Botany of the United States Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay^ 

 Grinnell La?id, — A. W, Greely. (International Polar Exp., 

 Report of Proceedings, vol. ii, pp. 11 -18. Washington, 1888.) 



An enumeration of the species collected, with notes on 

 habitat and distribution. The determinations of the flowering 

 plants were made chiefly by Drs. Gray and Watson, and the 

 Mosses and Lichens named by Rev. E. Lehnert. 69 flowering 

 plants and ferns, 63 Bryophytes and 7 Lichens compose the list 

 Puccinia Cheira?ithi, Ellis and Everhart, a n^\^ fungus, is de- 

 scribed in a foot note. It was collected on leaves of Cheirantlms 

 pygm^iis. 



Brickellia Kiiappiana. — Elmer C. Drew. (Pittonia, i. 260.} A 

 new species from near the Mohave River, California. 



Brozvnea macrophylla. — J. D. Hooker. (Bot Mag. Tab. 7033.) 



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Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State 

 University of Iowa, I. (Pamphlet, pp. 96, Iowa City, 1888.) 



This first number of a new publication contains the com- 

 mencement of a proposed series of papers on the Saprophytic 

 Fungi of Eastern Iowa, by Prof T. H. McBride, describing 

 twenty-four species oi Agaricus; a paper on the Peronosporse of 



McBride 



notes. 



Notes and De scrip 



■)f several Pacific Coast Species.— C. C. Parry. (Proc 



