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Davenport Acad. Sci. v. 162- 174; advance sheets issued 

 Feb. 9, 1 889-) 



Dr. Parry goes over the ground recently exploited by Professor 

 Trelease, and finds some things in which to differ from that 

 author, the most important of which, from the standpoint of sys- 

 tematic arrangement, is the reference of C, Pahneri^ Trel. and C. 



parvifoli 



As Profes- 



sor Greene has suggested (Pittonia, i. 246), more species exist 

 than those characterized by Prof Trelease, and Dr. Parry sup- 

 phes some, at least, of the omissions by describing C, intricatiiSy 

 C, Andersoni, C, divergens and C, foliosus as new. His general 

 observations on the morphology and habits of the species are in- 

 teresting and valuable, special attention being given to the fact 

 noted by Prof Greene, (1. c. 247), that most of the West Coast 

 species flower from the old wood and not from that of the season. 



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Cereus Pringlei. — C. S. Sargent. (Garden and Forest, ii. 64, 

 Fig. 92.) 



Chorizanthey R. Br. — Review of certain Species heretofore im- 

 properly characterised or wrongly referred^ with two new 

 Species.~C. C. Parry. (Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci. v. 174- 

 176, advance sheets issued Feb. 9.) C, robusta, C, Douglasii, 

 Parry, not Benth.), and C. Andersoni 2S^ described. 



Coffee Tree — The Kentucky. — C. S. Sargent. (Garden and For- 

 est ii. 75, ^6, fig. 94.) 



An interesting account of Gymnocladiis, with a good illus- 

 tration of the individual tree at Fishkill-on-Hudson, on the old 

 Verplanck estate. We note, with satisfaction, that Professor Sar- 

 gent accepts the old name dioica given to the tree by Linnaeus, 

 and rejects the later one of Canadensis by Lamarck. In cata- 

 logues and manuals the binomial should stand, Gymnocladus dioi- 



cns (L.), Koch- 



Contributions to American Botany. — XVL — Sereno Watson. 

 (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci., xxiv. 37-^7.) 



This includes the enumeration of Dr. Palmer's Mexican col- 

 lection of 1887, made about Guaymas, at Muleje and Los Angeles 

 in Lower California, and on the Island of San Pedro Martin in 



