138 ERYTHEA. 
longis, involucrum duplo superantibus; floribus disci flavidis, 
stylo longe exserto; stigmatis lobis linearibus, erectis, 
undique papillosis; acheniis hirtis, pappo flores disci super- 
ante coronatis.—Habitus A. alpini. Proxime A. Kingii, 
Wats. (in Report of the Geological exploration of the 
fortieth parallel, volume V., Botany, by Sereno Watson pag. 
141. tab xvi) affinis. Posterior caule 2-3 pollicari, foliis 
radicalibus caule brevioribus lanceolato-spathulatis basi 
ciliatis, foliis caulinis paucis (2-3), involucro glanduloso- 
pulverulento, ligulis brevioribus albis, stylo incluso, stigma- 
tibus tantum breviter exsertis facile dignoscitur. Semina cl. 
Roezl in Californiae Sierra Nevada collegit. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 
ANOTHER of the handsome volumes from the Missouri 
Botanical Garden has come to us in the shape of the Sixth 
Annual Report. The scientific papers contained therein 
have for the most part been issued separately in advance. 
With these are fifty-six plates. This volume in itself is 
abundant evidence, if evidence be needed, that the endow- 
ment of Henry Shaw is under wise control. 
Henri Battion, the most distinguished French botanist 
of the time, died in the latter part of July. The wide 
celebrity which he enjoyed was largely attained by the 
production of the “Histoire des Plantes” and “Dictionnaire 
de Botanique.” He was an ardent admirer of Adanson and 
was the editor of Adansonia during the life of that 
periodical. 
Proressor E. L. GREENE, who has been botanizing for 
several weeks in the Sierras, in Nevada and in Wyoming, is 
now located in his new quarters in the Catholic University, 
Washington, D. 0 
