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Rusting of Wheat, {Puccima grammis). Otto Luggar. (Bull. 5^ 

 College Agric. Univ. Minn,, 53-67; illustrated). 



Strazvherry — Notes on the History of the, — E. Lewis Sturtevant. 



(Trans. Mass. Hort. Soc. for the year 1888, pp. 191-204). 



An exhaustive treatise, containing a bibliography of more 

 than sixty citations, besides notes on distribution, synonomy and 

 varieties. An appendix gives a list of fifty-four representations 

 of the strawberry published previous to the present century, and 

 dating as far back as 1484. 



Tephrosiaheterantha — Cleistoganious Floxvers of. — G. Hieronymus 

 (Jahrb. Schles. GeselL Vatcrl. Cultur. 1887, 235; Journ. 

 Roy. Micros. Soc. 1889, 85). 



UmhellifercB — Revision of J^orth A^ncrican. — John M. Coulter and 

 J. N. Rose. (Pamphlet, 8vo. pp. 144, nine plates, Crawfords- 

 ville, December, 1888). 



This excellent monograph of the North American represen- 

 tatives of a most difficult order of plants supplies a want long 

 felt in American science, and the authors should have the thanks 

 of the whole botanical fraternity for their patient and thorough 

 work. We have carefully examined every page of it, and w^hile 

 there Is room for considerable difference of opinion concerning the 

 disposition of certain forms and groups, we have little but praise 

 for the general treatment of the subject. The collections in nearly 

 all the larger herbaria were examined. The Systematic Synopsis 

 is prefaced by a few pages of general introduction, in which the 

 morphology of the plants Is described and the characters most de- 

 pended on in the classification are discussed, the fruit being em- 

 phasized as by far the most important of these. There is also an 

 artificial key to the genera; want of space forbids a complete 

 presentation of all the changes made in nomenclature, and an 

 enumeration of the very considerable number of new species pi'<5- 

 posed. Coloptera, founded on Penccdamim Newberryi, and two 

 new species; Pseudocyniopteriis, founded on Cymopteriis montaniis, 

 C. bipinnaius dinA C. anisatns ; Miiseniopsis, consisting of Taiisch- 

 ia Texana, Gray ; Harboiiria, based on Thaspiicm iraehypieunWh 

 Gray ; and Aletes {Deweya aeaiilis, Torr.), are all new genera. 

 Oreoxis humilis, Raf, having priority, replaces Cyuiopterus alpi- 



