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Botanical Notes. 



Kansas FicngL Kellerman and Swingle. (Fascicle L, Nos. 

 1-25, May I, 1889, price $1-25). This very compact little set 

 of fungi contains a liberal supply of neatly prepared specimens, 

 which though including some common species, still gives well 

 selected specimens of some good things in the following genera: 

 j^cidiitm^ Ceratophoriim, Cercospora^ Glceosporiiun^ Melasniia^ 

 Microspka^ra, Peronospora^ Phragmidmm^ Piiccinia^ Raniulariay 

 Rcestelia, Scolecotrichiim, Septoria^ SpJuBrotheca^ Uredo and 



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Pittonia. We record the completion of the first volume of 

 Professor Greene's '' Series of Papers relating to Botany and 

 Botanists," the last pages being issued May 31st The volume 

 consists of 311 pages, and the last part, (part 6), is accompanied 

 with a very complete index. Surely no worker in systematic 

 botany can afford to be without this valuable contribution to the 

 knowledge of our North American flora. 



Memoirs of the Club. The first number of this new serial, 

 containing Professor Bailey's paper on his study of the type 

 specimens of Carex in the herbaria of America and Europe, was 

 issued May 25th- Subscriptions to the MEMOIRS will be wel- 

 comed by the editors, who trust that American botanists will find 

 the series worthy their support. Mr. Martindale's paper on the 

 Algiie of the New Jersey and Staten Island Coasts is in press a 

 will form the second number of Volume I. 



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another locality for this form of the Pigeon Berry, in the town of 

 Stow, about six miles from Concord, Mass., where it was de- 

 tected several years since by Mr. B. R. Joyce, who states that 

 the patch is about ten by twelve feet square. 



Note on Tissa. In my recent paper on the American forms 

 of this genus (BULLETIN, xvi. 125-129), I remarked that it 

 would be interesting to note its treatment in Engler and Prantl's 

 "Natiirliche Pflanzenfamilien." The 33rd part of this work 

 containing the Caryophyllea^, by Herr F. Pax is just received. He 

 properly calls it Tissa and credits it with twenty species. 



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