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E. rubiginosum. <Aplopappus rubiginosus, Torr. & 
Gray, Fl. ii. 240 (1843). An annual upright corymbose 
species, wearing much of the aspect of a Grindelia, but with 
the characters of Hriocarpum. 
E. phyllocephalum. Aplopappus phyllocephalus, DC., 
Prodr. v. 347 (1836). A Mexican species not yet seen by me. 
Dr, Kuntze has united this and the preceding under the 
name Aster phyllocephalus. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 
THE NEWLY formed Department of Botany at Chicago 
University has for its head Dr. J. M. Coulter, “ Professorial 
Lecturer in Botany,” Henry L. Clarke, assisting. 
OnE of the recent appointments in the U. 8. Department 
of Agriculture is that of Victor K. Chesnut as Assistant in 
the Division of Botany. Mr. Chesnut is a graduate of the 
College of Chemistry, University of California, and in his 
student days employed vacation leisure to good purpose in 
botanical expeditions in the Coast Range and the Sierra 
Nevada. Asa graduate student at Chicago University, his 
Specialty was organic chemistry, an intimate knowledge of 
which is, we understand, invaluable in the special line of 
investigation assigned for his pursuit. 
Tae Fitson Cxvs of Louisville, Kentucky, has announced 
as one of its forth-coming publications “The Life and Writ- 
ings of Constantine Samuel Rafinesque,” by Richard Ells- 
worth Call. This memoir, as stated in the Prospectus, had 
its genesis in an attempt by the author to clear up certain 
matters connected with the synonymy of a group of fresh- 
water mollusks. In this manner much was incidentally 
learned concerning the personality of Rafinesque, and the 
conclusion was reached as the work proceeded, that Ameri- 
