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selves. A second volume leading up through the inflorescence 

 to systematic work is promised. 



Palmoxylon— Description of tzvo Species of — One New — From 

 Louisiana. F. H. Knovvlton. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xi. 89 



-91, PI- XXX.) 



Palmoxylon celhilosiim, n.sp., is figured in section and de- 

 scribed in regard to the constitution and appearance of its tissue. 

 On the same plate is also figured a section of P. Qnenstcdti, 

 Felix. Both species were collected by Mr. Lewis C. Johnson in 

 Rapides Parish, La. 



Passifora HahniL (Bot. Mag. Tab. 7052.) 

 Peronosporece and Rain-fall. Byron D. Halstead. (Journ. My- 



col. V. 6-1 1 ). 



Portlandia pterosperma. (Gard. and For. li. 208, 209, Fig. 105.) 

 Raphidodiscns.—T/ie Affi7iities of. C. M. Vorce. (The Micro- 

 scope, ix. 132-137, PL VI). 



Remizia pedtmcnlata. (Garden, xxxv. 343, illustrated). 

 Rnshy, Henry H. (Pharm. Rec. ix. 147, with portrait.) 

 Salpichroina rhomboideiim. Garden, xxxv. 367, illustrated.) 

 Scleroderma in Saceardds Sylloge. — The Gemcs. J. B. Ellis. 



(Journ. Mycol. v. 23, 24). 

 Shepherdia Canadensis. — Notes on. D. P. Penhallow. (Can. 



Rec. Sci. iii. 360-363). 



An interesting account of the methods used to make edible 

 preparations from the berries. 

 Shoriia. — The Home of. Frank E. Boynton. (Garden and For- 



est, ii. 214, 215). 



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where the plant is described as growing " by the acre." It is 

 indeed a subject for congratulation that it may be found there in 

 such abundance that there is but little danger of its being exter- 

 minated by botanical collectors, but it is to be sincerely hoped 

 that no person will again be enabled to convert this plant into an 

 article of merchandise. 

 ^hortia galacifolia. (Garden, xxxv. 3 30). 



A further memorandum of this plant states that the speci- 

 mens exhibited in England some months since by Mr. Elwes 

 were obtained from a new locality in America. " Its where- 



