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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1905. 



WOOD. Elvira. On new and old Middle 

 Devonic crinoids. 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls., xlyii. guar. 



issue, II, pt. 1, No. 1471, Aug. 6, 1904, pp. 



56 84, text figs. 1-9, pis. 15, 10. 

 This paper is devoted to a study of the speci- 

 mens cm' Middle Devonian crinoids in the col- 

 lections of tlic r. S. National Museum ami 

 Massachusetts institute of Technology. The 

 new genera Tripleuroerinus and Tylocrinus 

 are instituted with '/'. levis, new species, and 7'. 

 not tis, new species, as the respective type spe- 

 cies. Three new species of Megistocrinus are 

 described and figured, while remarks upon 

 known forms are given. Under the genus 

 Dolatocrinus two new species are described, 

 comments upon It; other species of the genu-, 

 made, and the new name Dolatocrinus wai hs- 

 muthi is proposed in place of Dolatocrinus 

 lijoni Wachsmuth and Springer, the latter 

 being preoccupied. In addition, comments 

 upon other genera and 7 species, notes upon 

 calyx abnormalities, and a table showing the 

 distribution of Devonian crinoids are given. 

 Ml of the figured specimens are the propertj 

 of I he National Museum. 



BOTANY. 

 BRITTON, V L. (Sec tin, lor Joseph N. 



Rose.) 



COVILLE, Frederick V. Desert plants 

 as a source of drinking water. 



Rep. Smithsonian Inst., 1903 (1904), pp. 

 [99 -505, pis. t. n. figs. 1-4. 



GREENE, Edward L. The Neckerian 

 cactaceous genera. 



Leaflets, i. Aug. 25, 1904, pp. 50-52. 

 An identification of the 4 obscure cactaceous 

 genet i ol decker's Elemcnta: (1 ( 'actus-- - 

 Marriillaria and Melocactus; (2) Cirinosum 

 Cereus: (3) Carpophyllun Pereskia; (4) Phpi- 

 lanthus punt ia and Phyllanthus. 



North American species of Amar- 



ilia. 



Leafleti . t. Vug. 25, 1904, pp. 53-55. 



ol ( iihhei't 's .1 man lla as dis- 

 nnGentiana; the known North Amer- 

 ican species transferred, and (lie following 

 new ones proposed: .1 . i opt landi, calif arnica, 

 lembcrti, macounii, vonferta, scopulorum, rev- 

 oluia, cobrt nsis. 



Seven new Apoeynums. 



I. mil, is, i, Aug. 25, 1904, pp. 5(5-59. 



Description of .1 divergens and .1. an- 



from Connecticut ; .1 . calophyllum . 



.1. tcomcntcllum, .1. oliganthum, A. myrian- 



tliiiin from the Greal Basin; and A. paluslre 



from California. 



— Affinities of the Cichoriacese. 



Leaflets, t, Aug. 25, 1904, pp. 59-62, 

 Discussion of the intimate natural relation 

 between the Cichoriacese and Lobeliaceae 



GREENE, Edward L. Some western 

 buckthorns. 



Leaflets, i. Aug. 25. 1904, pp. 63, 64. 

 Rhamnus fasckulata, R. ursina, R. castorea, 

 R. cuspidata, R. obtusissima, new species from 

 New Mexico, Arizona, and California-. 



— A name explained. 



Torreya, iv, Nov. 21, 1904, pp. 173, 174. 

 . rivation of Cholisma Raf., erroneously 

 prim id Xolisma. 



— New species of Ceanothus. 

 Leaflets, t. Nov. 24. 1904 pp. 65-68. 



Ceanothus puberulus, C. myrianthus, C. 

 mogollonicus , C. peduncularis, and C. macro- 

 thyrsus, new species from New Mexico. Cali- 

 fornia . ami < iregon. 



The genus I'm umonanihe. 

 Leaflets, I, Nov. 24, 1904, pp. 68-71. 

 The author discusses Pneumonanthe as dis- 

 tinct from Gentiana, and transfers to it such 

 North American species as had not been 

 na n it 'i 1 under P nt a monanthe . 



New plants from middle California. 

 Leaflets, i, Nov. 24, 1904, pp. 73 80. 

 New species of Lupinus, Lotus. Sidalcea, 

 Silene, Aquilegia, Delphinium, Bistorta, F.n- 

 ogoniiin. Swertia, Castilleja, Pentstemon, 

 Apocynum, Cryptantht . Galium, Chrysotham- 

 iiiis. 21 in all. 



Certain west American Cruciferse. 

 Leaflets, r, Dec. 21, 1904, pp. 81-90. 



Breaking up the large Califomian group of 

 so-called Streptanthi into the following new 

 genera: Euclisia, Pleiocardia, Mitophyllum, 

 Microsemia, Mesoreanthus. Seven new spe- 

 cies are proposed and described in the several 

 new genera 



Ltltitlmt . 



Leaflets, i. Dec. 31, 1904, p. 90. 

 Restoration of Rafinesque's name as long 

 prior to the Chlorogalum of Kunth. The 6 



known species renamed under Laothoe. 



On certain Gentianacese. 



I., a this, i. Dec. 31, 1904, pp. 91-94. 

 Sut rtiti parallela, new species. Restoration 

 of Rafinesque's Aloitis as a good segregate 

 from <:• ntiana. Fournew species are defined. 



Two new batrachia. 

 Leaflets, i, Dec 31 . 1904, p. 95. 

 Batrachium bakeri and I-!, pedunculari . both 



from California. 



Two new Sophise. 

 Leaflets, I, Dec. 31, 1904, p. 96. 

 Sophia obtusa and S. serroto,both from New 



Mexico 



— Diagnoses Aragallorum. 

 Proc. Biol. Soc, Wash., win. Jan. 20, 

 1905, pp. 11-18. 

 Descriptions of 19 new species of A ragallus, 

 the greater proportion of them from the 



