R"EPRINTED FROM THE PHILIPPINE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 



Vol. Ill, Sec. C, No. 2, Botany. 



INDEX TO PHILIPPINE BOTANICAL LITERATURE, IV. 



By Elmer D. Merrill. 

 [From, (he Botaincat Section of the Biological Laboralori/, Bnrani, of Hvienve, 



Manila, P. I.) 



Ames, Oakes. Orchidacoae: Illustrations and Studies of the Family Orchidaceae, 

 issuinj^- from the Ames Botanical Laboratory, North Easton, Massachusetts, 

 fascicle 1 (1905) pp. 1-156; fascicle 2 (1908) pp. 1-288. 



Of fascicle one, pages 1 to 13 and plates 1 to 3 treat of Philippine orchids, 

 while pages 03 to 107 are occupied by a descriptive list of orchidaceous 

 plants collected in the Philippines by botanists of the United States Govern- 

 ment, about 00 species being considered, many of them described for the first 

 time. Fascicle 2, pages 1 to (5 and plates 17 to 19 treat of Philippine 

 orchids, and on plates 21 to 24 eighteen species of Plnlii)pine Dendrochilum 

 are figured. The greater part of this fascicle is taken up by a paper 

 entitled "Stvulies in the Orchid Flora of the Philippines," pages 17 to 257, 

 with many figures, al>out 235 species being considered. This work is by far 

 the most important one that has ever been issued on the Philippine represent- 

 atives of this family. 



Baker, J. G. Handbook of the Fern-Allies : A Synopsis of the ( Jenera and Species 

 of the Natural Orders Equisetaceae, Lycopodiaceae, Selaginellaceae, Rhizo- 

 carpeae. (1887) pp. 1-159. 



In this work an attempt is made to describe all tlie species then known of 

 the above orders, the following species being credited to the Philippines: 

 Lycopodium earinatum Desv., L. sr/iiarrosum Forst., L. fUiforme Roxb., L. 

 casuarinoides Spring; Helaginclla aitriculafa Spring, »S'. coinmersoniana Spring, 

 H. plumosa Baker, ^. borhata Spring, »S*. cuminfiirina Spring, .S'. phiUiipina 

 Spring, >•?. involrrns Spring, N. imHicIni Spring, .S'. ranaliciilafa Spring, H. 

 willdenovii Baker, S. miilrsrciis Spring, >S'. penmila Spring, *Sf. pteryphi/Uos 

 Spring, S. interiexta Spring. .V. myosuroides Spring; Marsilca minuta Linn., 

 and by inference other species of Lycopodium and Sclaginella, also Psiloftiin 

 and Azolla. 



Bailey, J. W., & Harvey, W. H. Algae in Kept. Wilkes V. S. E.xploring Expedi- 

 tion 17 (1862) 155-192. 



Six species of algae are recorded from the Pliilii)pines, one of which is 

 described as new. Following the pajier on algae, the Dialoniaceae and other 

 microscopic forms are enumerated. For Dialoniaceae see Harvey & Bailey 

 below. 



Benjamin, Ludwig. Neiic (ialtungen und Arten der Utricularieen nebst einer 

 nevien Entheilung der Gattung I'trieularia. [lAnnacn 20 (1847) pp. 299- 

 320.) 



Three species are described from Cuming's Pliilippine distribution, Utricti- 

 laria hrcvicai(li.'<, U. rosnlata, and U. heterompala. The first however was 

 based on (Juminy 2289, which was collected in Malacca, not in the Philipi)ines. 



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