1888. | 
BOTANICAL GAZETTE. I7I 
are indigenous to the state. 124 species are, therefore, introduced, of 
which 113 come from Europe, and probably many of them directly from 
a Germany. The list is prefaced by some remarks on the topography an 
____ climate of the county. It does not seem to be founded upon a 
Bs ‘specimens, which is unfortunate. 
x A PRELIMINARY catalogue’ of the vascular plants growing within a 
% hundred miles of New York City has been issued by the Torrey Botan- 
a ital Club, The boundary line is quite an arbitrary one, but probably 
E: limits the work as well as if it was more natural. A list of ballast plants 
¥ is also included, and presents a formidable array of foreigners who have 
landed upon our shores, the great majority of whom, it is to be hoped, 
will find no welcome. The noticeable thing sbout the catalogue is its 
innovations in respect to specific names, for which, we are told, the sub- — 
committee on nomenclature, COnmEeng of Messrs. Britton, Sterns and Be, 3 
Poggenburg, “alone are responsible. Ree 
a: NOTES AND NEWS. 
s | R. CHARLES E. Bessey, of bee University of Nebraska, sails for | 
4 Sine June 16 to spend the sum ee 
a THE FIRST PART of the bac gies of a Sylloge Fun- je - 
§0rum is 1ssued,and will hereafter receive suitable n 
i. M.S. Bess describes (with plate) Salix ee in Bull. Torr, 
Club (ay ), and gives an account of its discovery in the White 
‘ame a8 
ARCHROPHYTON NEWBERRYANUM is the name of a de ag iia 8 
Pant a ee (with plate) by Dr. N. L. Britton in Annals 
ehcagae FIGURED North American plants in Garden and Forest are a 
= Roa oan A Nia “ae io 25), Spec humilis Watson (May 2), 2 
4 4. Palm Watson 16). ae Ra 5 
q De. H. H. ee - of Columbia College, hae’ distributed & reprint ete 
his interesting g pa giper O06 ae me rs ie as abroad,” published in the 
Therapeutic si for March and ae 
be Mr. George M bli nee a revision of the genus 
e in Journ nak of Boling CMe ry "he genus is credited with cht 
; Species, four of which are described as 
THE REVISION of Scotch sehses alae and nag rg = ioe Oy ae 
rem ried is bag oe a close with 223 species in th tad te the zener, : 
teneoust: ean a hundred miles o _ or fans 
ee 
eliminary Catalogue of niles of New. and rein tompiled ays a ‘committee of the : 
: €, Pl. _ 
Torrey Botanical Club. xviii and 90 pp., oy 
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