i506 



Exp. Sta., Univ. Ills., illustrated). 

 Bromeliace(E— Handbook of the. J. G. Baker (8v< 



Geo Bell & Sons, 1889). 



We have to thank Mr. Baker for a copy of 

 work. It is uniform with his Fern-Allies, and Amaryllideae 

 formerly reviewed in these columns, and we are glad to learn 

 from the preface that a similar volume on the Iridere is contem- 

 plated. Mr. Baker is recognized aS the cjreatest living authority 



this important 



on all these petaliferous endogens, and it is to be sincerely hoped 

 that he will complete the series so well begun. Thirty-one genera 



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and more than eight hundred species are recognized in the present 

 monograph. They are entirely confined to the warmer parts of 

 America, by far the greater part of them being South American. 

 Dr. Rusby's Bolivian collections are included, and furnish several 

 new species of Tillandsia, Puya and Bilbcrgia. The Florida 

 Catopsis collected by Garber is not the real C. nutans but C. nit- 

 ida, the species (described as Tillandsias) having been reversed 

 by Grisebach. The United States Tillandsias recognized are as 

 follows: T.tisncoides,\^.; T. recurvata,\.. {T. Bartrami,^\\)\ 

 T. Wihoni, S. Wats. ; T. bulbosa. Hook. ; T. setacea, Sw. {T.jim- 

 cca and T. pinifolia, Le Conte ; T. Balbisiana, Schultes ; T. fas- 

 cicnlata, Sw. {T. bractcata, Chapm.) ; T. Valcnzuelana, A. Rich. 

 ( T. Honz 



add T.fli 



To these we may 



N. L. B. 



Mosses. J. Maconn 



In this the fourth century of the distribution are included the 

 remainder of the Hypnums, among which are the following desir- 

 able species: H. dilatatiim, Wils. ; H. alpestre, Sw. ; H. arcticum, 

 Wahl. ; H. sarmentosn?n, Wahl. ; H. Ricliardsoni ; H. hauin- 

 losiim, Br. and Sch. ; H. plicatile, Lesq. and James ; H. Sendt- 

 neri, Schimp. ; the true H. Cossoni, Br. and Sch., not H. vernico- 

 sum, Lindb., of the Manual; H. robustinn, and H. a^dipodiunt. 

 Five new species are issued with manuscript names by Lind- 

 berg: H. {Harpidium) Renauldi, n. sp., H. {Isotheciiun) myitrcel- 



H. {Isothesinin) Cardoti, Leskea nigresccns and Dichelyma 



longincrve 



H. sub imp' 



H. uncinatum var. snbstriatum. H, 



