Vol. XVI 



JANUARY, 1889. 



No. 1 



BULLETIN 



OF THE 



TORREY BOTANICAI 



J 



Club, 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF BOTANY. 



Edited by 



NATHANIEL LORD BRITTON, 



AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CL-UB, 



CONTENTS 



Some Xew or Imperfectly Known AlgcB 

 of the United St"*—.— L: W, G. Fr ' ^r. 



An Enumeration of the Plants CoUectea 

 ^Y Dr. H. H. jRusby in South America, 

 1885-1 S86. -IV. : A'. L. Brithm 



Additions to our [Native Flora: Thos, C. 



Po r 



BoTAMCAi. Notes.— Lycopodium lucidu- 



lum Bulblets, E. E. Sterns; Dianthus Ar- 

 maria, E. E. SL...^; Willow-galls, M. 

 -s: JS.; Weeds. Biim^i Jj, Hals* ' ; Oxy- 

 baphus nyctagineus, }K W. r»i //; Va- 

 riegated Kalmia, E. Lewis S'*-,,..^ '; 

 triad style in Mentha piperita, Thj^i^. 

 ^f''^ >n ; Eclipta procumbens, 27" >. V^ *- 

 ^' ; A New Foreigner, Tlv ^ C. luiur. 



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Reviews of Foreign Lite hattbe.— Cell 



membrane of the Desmids; Culture of 

 Lichen building Ascomycetes without 

 Alg£o; Germination of Lichen spores 

 on ^' ssprotonema; Spermatia of the 

 Ascomy ^^ ces. 



Kecent American Liter atitee.— Black 



Rot ; Botany for Academies and Col- 

 leges; Flora of the Vi ' lity of ^an Fran- 

 cisco; Primula Rusbyi; Report of the 

 Botanist New Yorfc State Musemn of 

 Natural History ; Synopsis of the Atedi- 

 cal Botany of the United States, and 

 briefer notices 



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Proceedixgs of the Clcb 



NEW YORK: 



Press of Holt Brotheks, 17-27 Vandbwater Sxkbkt, 



