360 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [MAY 
73-84. The publication continues its high character, and the plates represent 
the best of the lithographer’s art.—J. M. C 
ONE of the most recent additions to the local floras of Britain is the Flora 
of Cheshire, prepared from the manuscripts of the late Lord de Tabley. It 
gives in great fullness an account of the floral districts, the ecological condi- 
tions, and a list or species accompanied by a detailed account of stations.— 
i, Sas 3 
‘THE FIRST FASCICLE of the third volume of Pittier’s Flora of Costa Rica® 
red. It contains the “ Filices, Equisetaceae, Lycopodiaceae, 
esc aliavead and Rhizocarpaceae,” by H.Christ. Seventeen new species 
and ten new varieties of ferns are described, besides one new species and two 
new varieties of Lycopodium.—]J. 5 
BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES is the title of a new botanical journal, 
to be “issued at irregular intervals,” and to include papers by the director 
of the Biltmore Herbarium and his associates. The first number was issued 
April 8, 1891, and includes the following papers: C. D, BEADLE and F. E. 
Boynton, Revision of the species of Marshallia (7 species, 3 of them new); 
C. L. Boynton and C. D. BEADLE, Notes on certain coneflowers (including 
5 new species of Rudbeckia); T. G. HARBISON, New or little known species 
of Trillium (3 new species); C. D. BEADLE, New species of thorns from the 
southeastern states (21 new species of Crataegus); C. D. BEADLE, a shrubby 
oak of the southern Alleghanies oe eats The journal is very hand- 
somely printed and illustrated.— J. M. C. 
PROFESSOR E. L. GREENE has begun the publication of a series of 
papers bearing the title Plantae Bakerianae. It is to contain lists of plants 
collected by Mr. Carl F. Baker and his colleagues and distributed to various 
herbaria on both sides of the Atlantic. The first volume is to include the 
collections of 1898 by Messrs. Baker, Earle, and Tracy in southern Colorado, 
and the fascicle now at hand extends from Fungi to Iridaceae. A prefatory 
narrative by Mr. Earle describes clearly the region traversed, and gives an 
adequate background for the list of plants which follows. The fungi are by 
Messrs. Earle and Tracy, and the list includes descriptions of thirty-one new 
species. The Polyporaceae have been determined by Professor Underwood, 
the lichens by Professor Fink, and the grasses by Professor Tracy; otherwise 
the determinations are by Professor Greene, who includes descriptions of new 
species of Zygadenus and Allium.—J. M 
TABLEY, Lorp : The flora of Cheshire. Edited by Spencer cogs and with 
a biographical notice of the author by Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff. 8vo. p. cxiv-t 
399. London: Longmans, Green, & Co. 1899. $3.50. 
6 PITTIER, H.— Primitiae Florae Bdahaciceec. Vol. III. pp. 1-69. San José de 
Costa Rica. Ig01. 75 cents. 
7Plantae Bakerianae 1: 1-52. 23JaIgol. descr to Iridaceae. Catholic Uni- 
versity of America, Washington, D.C. Price 40 ¢ 

