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  BOTANICAL 
  GAZETTE. 
  [ 
  February, 
  

  

  CURRENT 
  LITERATURE. 
  

  

  Minor 
  Notices. 
  

  

  A 
  NEW, 
  revised, 
  and 
  enlarged 
  edition 
  of 
  Dr. 
  George 
  Vasey's 
  catalogue 
  

   of 
  the 
  agricultural 
  grasses 
  and 
  forage 
  plants 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  has 
  just 
  been 
  

   issued. 
  There 
  has 
  been 
  such 
  a 
  large 
  denaand 
  for 
  this 
  valuable 
  bulletin 
  

   that 
  a 
  new 
  edition 
  became 
  necessary. 
  The 
  present 
  edition 
  contains 
  118 
  

   pages 
  and 
  H4 
  plates. 
  

  

  Db. 
  George 
  Lawson 
  has 
  published, 
  as 
  an 
  appendix, 
  a 
  school 
  edition 
  

   of 
  the 
  fern-flora 
  of 
  Canada. 
  A 
  brief 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  general 
  character 
  

   and 
  parts 
  of 
  ferns 
  is 
  given, 
  followed 
  by 
  a 
  classincation 
  of 
  Canadian 
  ferns, 
  

   with 
  a 
  full 
  account 
  of 
  their 
  localities. 
  A 
  plate 
  illustrates 
  the 
  principal 
  

   genera 
  and 
  makes 
  them 
  comparatively 
  easy 
  of 
  identification. 
  We 
  would 
  

   suggest 
  that 
  the 
  work 
  would 
  have 
  commended 
  itself 
  more 
  to 
  "schools 
  " 
  

   had 
  there 
  been 
  inserted 
  a 
  few 
  simple 
  keys 
  to 
  genera 
  and 
  species. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  L. 
  N. 
  Brittox 
  has 
  published 
  a 
  revision 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Eleocharis 
  

   in 
  N. 
  America, 
  distributed 
  as 
  Contribution 
  12 
  from 
  the 
  Herbarium 
  

   of 
  Columbia 
  College, 
  but 
  reprinted 
  from 
  the 
  Jour. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Micr. 
  Soc. 
  vol. 
  

   5, 
  no. 
  4. 
  So 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  range 
  of 
  Gray's 
  Manual 
  is 
  concerned 
  we 
  note 
  the 
  

   following 
  changes: 
  E. 
  equisetoides 
  of 
  the 
  Me^mml^E. 
  intent 
  inda 
  R. 
  & 
  

   S.; 
  E. 
  quadrangnkta=i;. 
  mutaia 
  E. 
  & 
  S.; 
  E. 
  obtu3a=i5. 
  ovata 
  R. 
  & 
  S. 
  ; 
  

   E. 
  8implex=^. 
  tmiilis 
  Sch.; 
  E. 
  compressa=E 
  amminata 
  Nees. 
  Alto- 
  

   gether, 
  40 
  species 
  are 
  enumerated, 
  including 
  a 
  new 
  one 
  (E. 
  Parishii) 
  

   from 
  S. 
  California. 
  

  

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  Underwood 
  & 
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  distribution. 
  All 
  the 
  sets 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  four 
  de- 
  

  

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  meat 
  of 
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