Among the Magazines. 19 
52 pages of clear type on good paper, giving a list of the Poly- 
petalous plants on which fungi have been recorded as found in 
extratropical North America; with a list of the fungi under each 
plant, in which full attention is paid to synonomy. Some species 
of plants stand as hosts to a very large number of fungi, Lirio- 
dendron tulipifera, for instance, having no less than 86, while the 
apple tree has 80. It is hoped that the remainder of the list will 
be issued during the coming winter, when also will be given any 
additions to part 1 brought to light in the meanwhile. 
Ll. D. ATG 
I. M. Coutter andJ. N, Rose. New Western Umbellifercee— 
Erymgium armatum, California, southward to San Diego Co.(Or- 
cutt), E. vaseyi, California and Oregon, Peucedanum martindalei, 
Oregon and Var. angustatum, Oregon, Wash. Ter. and Van- 
couver I., P. donnellii, Oregon, P. californicum, California, P. 
vaseyi, California, Selinum grayi (gmelini Port. & Coult.), Col- 
orado, S. dawsoni, Yukon, Ccelopleurum maritimum, Wash.Ter. 
“ Bot. Gazette,’’ 1888. 141-145 
C. F. Morrison. A list of some birds of La Plata County, 
Col., in Orn. & Ool., 1888, p. 115. This valuable little list con- 
tinues, the present installment being from Colaptes to Buteo. 
The author writes of Colaptes, “all our flickers are true mexican- 
us, and I am glad to be ina country where hybridus is not found; 
in Wyoming I nearly became demented arranging my numerous 
specimens taken there.”’ 
“Insect Lire.” Devoted to the economy and life habits of 
Insects, especially in their relations to Agriculture, and edited by 
the Entomologist and his assistants with the sanction of the Com- 
missioner of Agriculture. Washington (U. S. Department of 
Agriculture), Vol. 1, 1888. No. 1, July, and No. 2, August. 
Perhaps no department of Government work has ever been 
more thoroughly up to the standard to which it aimed than the 
division of Entomology of the Department of Agriculture. Agri- 
culturalists and Entomologists alike have constantly been indebt- 
-ed to the careful and fruitful work of Prof. Riley and his assist- 
ants and it is therefore with most entire satisfaction that we greet 
the issue of a new monthly bulletin, ‘‘Insect Life,’ in which the 
results of that work, too bulky for full publication in the “Annual 
Report,’’ will be given in detail, accompanied by many and ex- 
cellent illustrations. The first number commences with a “ salu- 
tatory’’ from Prof. Riley, wherein he says ‘‘ We hope to make 
the periodical interesting and useful to all in any way concerned 
in entomology, and, without further comments or promises, we 
cordially invite such to co-operate with us in our endeavors.” 
After this follows an illustrated biography of the corn-feeding 
Syrphus fly (Mesograpta polita), and many other interesting ar— 
ticles, including descriptions of five new species of Onccenemis by 
I. B. Smith, namely, O. fasciatus from Nevada Co., Calif., O. 
