78 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ April, 
. S. Geological survey west of the 100th meridian, Wash- 
ington, nthe lichens p. 350. 
New western lichens (Lecidea Brandegei, L. Pringlei, Aco- 
lium Sti. Tncobs Pyrenothamnia Spraguei), Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 
x. 21 (188 
so Ramalina (R. crinita), Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, x. 48 
1883). 
Two lichens of the Pacific coast Ape is melanaspis Ach., 
Staurothele Brandegei Tuckerm.), Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xi. 25 
(1884). This was his last publication. 
There may be one or two short papers on lichens in the Amer- 
ican Journal which are not noticed here, but they are not im- 
portant. 
[We take the liberty of adding to the above list the following: 
n Oakesia, a new genus of the order Empetrez, Hooker’s 
London Jour. Bot. i (1842), 443-447. 
numeratio methodica Caricum quarundam, Schenectady, 
Riggs, 1843.—In a letter to Mr. Willey toaeetn taht this the 
author says: “I send a brochure of mine upon CAREX written 
some 20 years since when I was salaralsfy: familiar with the com- 
mon species both of Europe and America * * * T collected 
in most parts of the north of Europe in 1841-2 and formed a 
whole of which I gave afterwards to Boott of London. Since his 
death the poegail part of this has been returned tome.” This little 
several new species, ce Jour. Sei. it ¢ bas), 2 4-232. 
bservations on some American geste of Pecan, Am. 
Jour. Sei. IT. vii (1849), 347-360. 
Lichenes, Pacific R. R. Rept. vi. 94 (1857).—Ebs.] 
Revision of North American Hypericacex.—lI. 
JOHN M. COULTER. 
Having studied the North American species of Hypericacez 
with all the material to be had at Cambridge, it seems to be 
proper, before putting the results into a more permanent shape, 
to present them to botanists for their criticism, that they may test 
them in the herbarium and field, and that the limitations of cer- 
tain species may be Better dekact. It is with the earnest request 
