1895.] Notes and News. 239 
of A. vulgaris L. As Iam not in sympathy with the movement that 
is producing such chaos in nomenclature and do not care to become 
aname changer myself, I leave it with the name under which it has 
been described.” How easy! 
accuracy in the determinations. Prof. J. M. Holzinger, Winona, Minn., 
is the author’s agent in this country. 
menomycete, and Xy/obotryum, a pyrenomycete); and descriptions of 
new oriental caryophylls, by J. Freyn. 
ANOTHER SERIAL PUBLICATION! Alas the day! The first volume of 
the genus Polygonum, r. n K. Small. It is illustrated by life- 
sized figures of all the species and by figures tem anatomy of 
the several] subgenera. There are eighty-six plates in all and about 
issued, contain the completion of Guttifera by Engler, Dipterocar- 
Dr. F. W. Kuarr, in Ann. &. k. naturhtst. Hofmuseum (9: 355), 
describes forty new Composite from tropical America (Mexico, Cen- 
tral America, and the northwestern South American states) from 
: Ss w as 
Brickellia (1), Heterotheca (1), Aster (1), Baccharis (1), Lagascea ( 
Baltimora (1), Schizoptera (1), Sclerocarpus (1), Viguiera (1), Verbesina 
(2), Liabum (2), Culcitium (2), Senecio (10), Gynoxys (1), Werneria 
(2), Othonna (1), Crepis (1). 
BULLETINS 5 and 7 of the North Carolina Geological Survey are 
devoted to forestry. No. 5 treats of the forests, forest lands, and 
forest products of eastern North Carolina; and no. 7 of forest fires, 
their destructive work, causes, and prevention; both by W. W. Ashe, 
