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Lichenopsis—What is f M. C. Cooke. (Grevillea, xvii. 94- 

 96). 



A dissertation founded upon certain problematic specimens 

 collected in the United States. A new genus is erected, Platy- 

 sticta, in which is included P. magnifica (B. & Br.).=(/*/a/y^ra- 

 pha mag7iifica, B. & Br., and B, simulans, Cke. and Mass.= 

 {Ltchenopsis sphceroboloides, Berk, in Herb, pro parte). This lat- 

 ter new species was determined from specimens in Herb. Berk., 

 which were mixed with and included under some of Schwci- 

 nitz's L. sphceroboloide^, which it closely resembles. 

 List of plants collected by Dr. E. A. Mearns at Ft, Verde ajid t?t 

 the Mogollon and San Francisco Mts., Arizona, 1884-1888^ 

 N. L. Britton. General Floral Characters of the San Fraji- 

 CISCO and Mogolleu Jfts., and the adjacent region. H. H. 

 Rusby. (Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. viii. 61-81 , reprinted.) 

 The list enumerates over 300 species, many of them rare, and 

 the following are described as n^w ; Viola Canadensis, var. scari- 

 osa, Porter; Hosackia Mearnsii; Lathy rns Arizonicus; Castilleia 

 gloriosa; Andibertla Mearnsii; Eriogomun Mearnsii^ Parry, 

 ihe following specific names are restored: Stanleya pinnata 

 (Pursh, 18 13,) for S, piniiatifida, Nutt. 18 18; Bahia dissecta 

 (Gray, 1849) f*oi" B. chrysanthemoides. Gray, 1883 ; Psendotsuga 

 taxifolia (Lamb, Gen. Pin. i. 51) iox P, Donglasii, Lamb. I.e. 

 HI. 163 ; Calypso bnlbosa (L. 1753). for C borealis, Salisb. 1807. 

 the restoration of older generic names entails the following 

 changes in binomials: Micrampales Gilensis {Gvcqwq), Britt for 

 ^chtocystis Gilensis, Greene, Unifolitun racemosum (L.), Britt. for 

 Smilacina racemosa, Desf Dr. Rusby 's acccount of the floral 

 features of the region is given from the notes of his collecting 

 tour in 1883. 



Loco Weed. L. E. Sayre. (Drug. Bull. iii. 145-I49jnustrated.) 



Excellent figures are given of Oxytropis Lamberti, Astragalus 



mollissimiis and A, tridactylicitk 

 Loco Weeds — Notes o?z the so-called, Fredk. B. Power. (Pliam. 



Rundsch, vii. 134-137-.] '^ 

 ^^^crosporium parasiticum, Thinn. — On the Life History of 



Kingo Miyabe, (Annals of Bot. iii. 1-26 ; two plates). 



This paper embodies the results of an interesting research 



