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rinni (hardly native ! ) Hilaria rigida, Hosackia glabra (Deer 

 Weed), and Franseria diimosa. 

 Fungi nonnttlli ParaguaricB et Fuegice. C. Spegazzini. (Revue 

 MycoL xi. 93-95). Phaneromyces is a new genys based on 

 Niptera (?) macrospora. Bond, and there are new species de- 

 scribed in Plettrotis^ Clicotyhe^ Polystictus and Favolus. 

 Geaster argenteus, Cooke. (Grevillea, xvii. 75). A new species 



from the Saskatchewan. (N. W. Am. Ex. Exp). 



Ilicincm and Celastracecs — Revision of North American. Wm. 



Trelease (Trans. St. Louis" Acad. Sci. v. 343-357 ; reprinted 



as Contr, from Shaw School of Botany, No. 5). 



Pending the continuation of the Synoptical Flora of North 



America, Professor Trelease issues provisional monographs on 



these small orders as he has previously done for some other 



groups hoping thereby to secure additional information concern- 



in^j them, havinq- about exhausted the material at his command 



in a critical study of the specimens preserved in the larger Her- 

 baria. Fourteen species of Ilex are recognized, / lougipes, 

 Chapm., being here first published, and a plant collected by Gar- 

 bcr at Tampa, Fla., Is described as /. anibigtia, Chapm., var. (?) 

 coriacea. Neither of the two published varieties of /. vertictUaia 

 are kept up, in which there Is room for some difference of opin- 

 ion. The resemblance of some of our species to those of Eastern 

 Asia is made the subject of remark. In the Celastrine^e, Prof. 

 Trelease finds a new species of Euonymtis, E. Parishii from the 

 San Jacinto Mountains, California, (Parish, No. 957)- ^^ ^"^ 

 matter of nomenclature he is on the fence, for while calling his 

 plants by their old binomials he is careful to state what the 

 others are to be, *' if," as he says, '' the specific name is to be ac- 

 cepted,'* thus putting himself into a position to be cited for the 

 proper names. This is certainly very shrewd, but is at all events 

 a hopeful and encouraging sign of the extension in a quite unex- 

 pected direction of the principles of a sound nomenclature. 

 Among the most noteworthy of these cases Nemopanthes Cana- 

 densis, DC.» becomes N. mneronata (L.), Trelease, being the 

 Vacciniwn mucronatum of Linnaeus and as Cassine CaroHniana, 

 Walter, Ilex amhigua, Chapm., becomes /. CaroUniana (Walt) 



Trelease. 



N. L. B. 



