88 



Phosphorescent Mushroom {Agariciis illtidens). — Geo. F. Atkin- 

 son. (Bot Gaz. xiv. 19). 



Pi7ius Sabiniana. (Gard. Chron. v. 45, fig. 6. 



A representation of the tree in Kew Gardens. 



ten of the Moon Flower {Iporncea Bona-nox) aiu 

 its Allies. Alfred C. Stokes, (The Microscop 

 Plate 2). 



if some of 



foliatns 



Arthur Bennett. 



(Journ. Bof 



Mr. Bennett notes that the name var. la?tceolattis, Robbins, 

 the common East American form of this species is antedated by 

 var. lanceolatusy Blytt, a Scandinavian form, and proposes the 

 above name for our plant. 



Rosa hiimilis, var. triloba. S. Watson. (Garden and Forest, ii. I^y 



fig- 93)- 



A form of this variable species is figured and described, hav- 

 ing three-lobed petals, and on this sport of a single specimen a 

 variety is founded. Specimens of this and other species of Rosa 

 are frequently found with the petals bi-lobed, and the tendency 

 to double is common. Under the circumstances it hardly 

 seems necessary or advisable to give varietal rank to what is evi- 

 dently only an individual sport, 



Thallophyte. — Notes on a New Ochraceotis — Alexis A. Julien. 



(Journ. N. Y. Mic. Soc. v. 31-34). 



A preliminary description of a supposed new genus, from 

 Mommouth Co., N. J,, and Sullivan Co., N. Y., apparently allied 

 to Leptothrix or Crenothrix, 



Vernonia in the United States — Distribution of Joseph F. 

 James. (Reprinted from the Journ. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. 

 Hist Jan. 1889). 



The fifteen species and varieties credited to the United States 

 are divided into two sections, under the author's arrangement, 

 those having linear and those having lanceolate leaves. The first 

 of these is almost exclusively Western, and probably arrived by 

 way of Mexico, spreading northward as far as Nebraska. The 

 second group Is claimed to have a general Eastern distribution, hav- 



