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LeEvIER for retaining the genera Calypogeia and Gongylanthus as against Kantia 
and Cincinnulus, gives the synonymy of C. jissa, mentions the other N. Am. 
species, and proposes a new combination (C. portoricensis) for a West Indian 
species. 
eastern species of Muhlenbergia, suggesting a somewhat new classification and 
segregating several sub-species and one new species.—M. L. FERNALD (idem 23- 
25) has described the alpine Rhinanthus of Quebec and New Hampshire as a 
new species (R. oblongifolius) —W. W. EGGLESTON (Torreya 7:35, 36. 1907) has 
described 2 new species of Crataegus, one from Vermont, the other Mexican.—P. 
A. RypBerc (Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 34:35-50. 1907), in his 17th ‘Studies of 
the Rocky Mountain flora,” has described new species in Pedicularis, Adeno- 
stegia, Castilleia (13), Lupinus (10), Trifolium (4), Tium, Hamosa, Xylophacos, 
and Homalobus (2).—L. Diets (Bot. Jahrb. 39: 469-486. 1907), in a synopsis of 
African Anonaceae, describes Tetrastemma as a new genus.—A. ENGLER (idem 
573-580) has published Sloetiopsis Lesage and Pierreodendron (Simaru- 
baceae) as new African genera.—A. D (Pflanzenreich, part 27. 1907), in a 
monograph of Polemoniaceae, recognizes 12 genera and 277 species, and describes 
new species in Cantua (2), Polemonium (3), Phlox (g), Gilia (12), Navarretia (7). 
and Langloisia—W. Borrinc Hemstey (Annals of Botany 21:71~77. pls. 9-10. 
1907) has described a new genus (Seychellaria) of Triuridaceae from the Sey- 
chelles—Carpor and THeriot (Univ. of California Publications, Bot. 2:297-308. 
1906), in a list of Alaskan mosses collected by W. A. SETCHELL and others in 1889, 
describe and illustrate new species in Orthotrichum, Bryum (2), and Hypnum.— 
H. Curist (Bull. Herb. Boiss. Il. '7:257-274. 1907), in presenting the ferns of his 
Costa Rican Flora, describes 17 new species; and also (idem 275, 276) describes 
a new fern genus (Lathyropteris) from Madagascar, with characters intermediate 
between those of Pellaea and Pteris—E. LEMMERMANN (Bot. Jahrb. 38: 343-382. 
1907), in an account of the algal flora of the Chatham Islands, describes a new 
genus (Dermocarpella) of Chamaesiphoniaceae——G. W. Wirson (Bull. Torr. 
Bot. Club. 34:61-84. figs. 10. 1907), in the first paper of a series entitled “Studies 
in N. Am. Peronosporales,” presents the genus Albugo, gives lists of hosts, recog- 
nizes 13 species, and describes one as new.—Miss G. S. BURLINGHAM (idem 
85-95) has described 6 new species of Lactarius from Vermont.—C. H. PECK 
(idem 97-104) has described 20 new species of fungi, in 18 genera.—J. M. C. 
Biometric studies -—Fawcetr® has studied the variation in number of ray- 
flowers in the following Compositae: Anthemis Cotula from seven localities, 
Achillea Millejolium from four localities, and Senecio tri laris, Aster adscendens, 
and Erigeron salsuginosus, each from one locality. The results are not well 
d, but the data are given in tables and also represented by curves which 
show the following facts of interest: (2) Only in the case of Anthemis and Achillea 
were the numbers sufficient to give dependable results. (b) Both of these give 
* Fawcett, H. S., Variation in ray flowers of Anthemis Cotula and other Com- 
posites. Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 1905: 55-58. pls. 12-20. 1905. 
