307 



van dentatum ; Neckera Douglasii van Macoitnii and Scoiihria 

 aqiiattca van nigrescens. A few miscellaneous species are 

 added to make up the hundred, Brytcm Warneiun, B, occidentah. 



B, hiclinatiim 



flexifolia 



sideiis decipiens. Prof. Macoun does not intend to issue another 

 century, but, as good material accumulates, will distribute a dozen 

 species for a dollan 



K. G. B. 



Catalpa bignonioides, W. Goldring. (Garden, xxxvi. 239, illus- 

 trated). 



Cocos Weddellzana. W. H. G. (Garden, xxxvi, 275-276, illus- 

 trated). 



Dahlia liitea^ D. gracilis, var. snperha, D. coccinca. (Gard. 



Chron. vi. 274, 275, figs, ^j, 38, 42). 



The Dahlia conference, held last month in the Crystal Pal- 

 ace, London, recalled many facts in connection with this Ameri- 

 can genus, and its propagation abroad as an ornamental plant. 

 Phe '* Dahlia Centenary," as it is called by our friends across the 

 water, is recognized as an important date, and everything relat- 

 ing to the genus is being hunted up. It was first introduced in- 

 to England in 1789 by Lord Bute. The figures are said to 



represent some of the nearest approaches to the original wild 

 forms." "" ' 



Eriogoniun — A Nezv Species of— from Lower Califorjtia. C. C. 



Parry. (West Am. Sci., vi. 102, 103). A description is 



given of a new species, E. fastigiatitm, collected by C, R. 



Orcutt, No. 1501, La Salada, L. Cal. April, 1886). 

 Excttrsion Botaniqiie a 165 Liencs du Pole Noj^d. Ed. Jardin. 



(Bull. Soc. Bot de France, xxxvi, 194-203). 



An account of the botanical part of the work accomplished 

 by the Greeley expedition. 



Fer7ts~The Home of the, T.J. Evans. (Pop. Sci. Monthly, 

 xxxv. 814-819). 



A popular account of the fern flora in the neighborhood of 

 Killarney. 



Pu7igi^^TJst of— collected in 1884 along the Northern Pacific 

 Railrod^d. A. B. Seymour, (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, 

 xxiv. 182-191). 



