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151. ZyaapENus Fremonti, Torr. Pac, R. Rep. vii. 20. 
152. Frstuca Myvrus, Linn. Sp. 54. 
153. Bromus rAcEMosvs, Linn. Sp. 2d ed. 114. 
154. Horprvum murinum, Linn. Sp. 85. 
155. Exymus Srranton, Schult.; R. & 8S. Mant. ii. 426. 
156. Pinus Saprntana, Dougl.; Lamb. Pin. 146. 
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 
Ir is announced that an International Botanical Congress 
will be held at Madison, Wisconsin, August 23, 1893, and con- 
tinue for several days thereafter. The call has been made by 
acommittee of American botanists consisting of J. C. Arthur, 
L. H. Bailey, N. L. Britton, D. H. Campbell, J. M. Coulter, F, 
V. Coville, B. T. Galloway, Conway MacMillan, B. L. Robin- 
sonand L. M. Underwood. All botanists are elegible to mem- 
bership. It is set forth that the purpose of the Congress “is 
the presentation and discussion of botanical questions of gen- 
eral interest relating to the advancement of the science”; and 
it is furthermore “expected that the International Sanding 
Committee on Nomenclature, appointed last year by the 
Genoa Congress, will present its first report at this time.” 
Proressor GREENE has been devoting the last weeks of July 
to botanical journeys in the high Sierras and in the Rocky 
Mountains of Wyoming. From the latter region he goes in 
August to the Madison (Wisconsin) meetings. 
THE American Association for the Advancement of Science 
convenes this year at Madison, Wisconsin, August 17 to 24. 
The botanists will meet for the first time in an independent 
section. 
THE Boston Society of Natural History offers a first prize 
of from $60 to $100 and a second prize of a sum not exceeding 
$50 for the best memoirs on one of three scientific subjects, 
two of which appeal in a greater or less degree to students in 
