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Vol. XVI. 



MARCH, 1889 



No. 3 



BULLETIN 



OF THE 



ToRREY Botanical Club 



? 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF BOTANY. 



Edited by 



NATHANIEL LORD BRITTON, 



AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CLUB 



COTsTTENTS : 



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PAGE. 



An Enumeration of the Plants Collected 

 by Br. H. H. liusby in Soum America, 

 1885 1386.— A'. : X L, BriUon 61 



Euphorbiaoeffi Mexicanas: C. F, Mills-pmtfjh 65 



-1 ' ■ cfj-rdifnhhfs, L., and Two New Varie- 

 ties: TlwH. a Porter 67 



Elastic Stamens in Compositae : T/^w. 

 Mf'ehan 68 



Additions to the Iowa Flora : A. ,S. Hitch- 

 *^'*<^k , 69 



On a Fossil Marine Diatomaceoua Deposit 

 ^m Atlantic City, X J. (Plate Issxix :) 

 C Henrjj Km'n and B. A, S/'h idtze 71 



'^e I'^eal Ovary : K. E, Sterus 



Botanical Notes.— A proposed Flora of 

 Mt Desert; Professor K. A. Philippi; 

 American Hepaticas ; Kaspberry and 

 Blackberry hybrid 78 I 



P.4fiE . 

 EETIEWS of FOREIOX LrTERATrKK.-Tn- 



fluence of Seed production on fjrowth 

 and reserve material; Hymeno<-onidium 

 petasatum,a new fundus; CUlorophyil 

 bodies of the SelagineUece ; New species 

 of Cyperacea^ ; The Genus Scirpus 79 



Recent American Literature.— Botany 



of the U. S. Expedition to Lady Franklin 

 Bay; The Genus Ceanothus; New 

 Species of Chorizanthe ; Gymnoeladus 

 dioicus ; Contributions to Amerh an 

 Botany ; Flora of Montebello, Quebec; 

 Lichens' of Patagonia; Potamogetou 

 perfoliatus, var. Richardsonii ; Rosa 

 huniilis, var. triloba; Distribution of 

 Vernonia in the U. S.; Wbit*.^ Uuckle- 

 bemes • 



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