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ties, for the guidance of the modern botanist. A h'st of plants 

 beheved to be restricted to the region, and one of such as are 

 almost restricted to the same district, are appended. The work is 

 one of great value to the collector in that locality, and is a wel- 

 come addition to our list of local plant catalogues. 

 Matico, {Piper angiisiifoliinii). H. H. Rusby. (Drug. Bull., 



Noi 



Sept. 1889, illustrated, reprinted). 



Notes upon some. C. S. Sargent. (Gar- 

 den and Forest, ii., Nos: 73-86, July 17— Oct. 16, 1889). 

 Professor Sargent has given us in these papers an exceedingly 

 valuable contribution to American botany as well as to forestry. 

 They consist of a series of notes on species, arranged in their 

 • botanical sequence, numbered according to the Census Catalogue, 

 with critical remarks on nomenclature, distribution and rank as 

 species or varieties, and the insertion of those added to our ar- 

 boreal flora since the publication of that work. It is deemed im- 

 portant that a record of the most noteworthy facts brought out 

 by Professor Sargent should be preserved in the BULLETIN, and 

 as an avowed purpose of his work is to call out criticism, I ven- 

 ture to review it at considerable length. 



Magnolia tripetala, L. is the name taken up for J/. Umbrella, 

 Lam., and very properly, but no allusion is made to the fact that 

 it was adopted In the " Preliminary Catalogue of Plants " issued 

 by the Club considerably more than a year ago. Tilia pnbescens, 

 Alt., is retained as a species, in which decision Prof Sargent 

 differs from the conclusions last reached by Dr. Gray. Doubt is 

 expressed as to the correct reference of Xanthoxyliun Florida- 

 nnm, Nutt. to the West Indian X. Caribeeum, Lam., and the 

 question left open for future investigation. Xanthoxylum emar- 

 ginatiim, Sw., is an addition to the North American flora, having 

 been collected on Virginia Key by Dr. Garber in 1S77, and pre- 

 served in Professor Porter's herbarium. Hclietta parvifloj-a, 

 Benth., and Koeberlinia spinosa, Zucc, both Texan, are found to 

 attain sufficient dimensions to be included as trees, and the same 

 IS true of Ilex montieola. A curious mistake is made under 



Clifi 



gent is working, it will be remembered, 



on the principle of maintaining the oldest specific names, and 

 referring to a note by Dr. Watson (BULLETIN, xiv. 167), remarks 



