200 



xxviii. 24-26). A list of 16 species collected by Dr. Carl 

 Spegazzini. 

 Analogies and Affinities, Edward L. Greene (Pittonia, i. 289- 



300). . 



This is a very timely and instructive paper on characters 

 which are best for the classification of plants, and should be care- 

 fully weighed by all who are studying systematic botany. Pro- 

 fessor Greene considers the genus Palmerella properly reducable 

 to Lobelia and refers thence P. debilis as L, Dunnii, the var. 

 serrata as Z. Rot/iroekii and P, tenera as L, Palmeri. 

 Big-rooted Plants of the Plains — Two, Chas. E. Bessey. (Amer. 



Nat xxiii. 174-176; illustrated). An interesting account of 



Ciieurbita perennis. Gray, and IpovKxa leptopJtylla, Torr. 

 BrodicBa Palmeri. Garden and Forest, ii. 244, Fig. 107). 

 California Lilacs, C. L. Anderson. (Garden and Forest, 11. 



279). Under this heading is given a list and short description 



of the California species of Ceanothiis, 

 Capparis Arten — Ueber einige. L. Radlkofer. (SitZAmgb. 



Kong. bayr. Akad. Wissenschft. Math. phys. Classe, xvii. 365- 



422), References to some American species: C. aneeps, Shut- 



tlew. from ¥\ond^=C. Jamaieensis, 

 Carex — Studies of the Types of vario?(s Species of the Genus, 



L. H. Bailey (Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, i. 1-85). 



Professor Bailey has been going to the very base of his favor- 

 ite study by inspecting all the type specimens of original descrip- 

 tions of Carices that are extant in Europe and America, and in 



this paper gives us the result of his investigations. He finds that 

 a considerable number of species have been quite misunderstood 

 by American authors, and this fact necessitates the shifting of 

 names from one plant to another in some cases, and the entire 

 re-naming of the plant in others. Besides this his studies afford 

 descriptions of a large number of new species and varieties, mak- 

 ing this a most important contribution to American systematic 

 botany and to caricology in general. 



Carolina Hemlock — The, (Garden and Forest, ii. 267, illustrated.) 

 Chrysobalanaceen — Beitr^gc zitr Kenniniss der, /. Conspectus gen- 

 eris Licanice, Karl Fritsch. (Annalen der K. K. Naturhis. Hof 

 Museum. Vienna, iv. ^^-/^^^ 



