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Tuomas Moronc: Notes upon a revision of the North 
American Naidacee. 
M. B. ITE: Notes on some pear and apple diseases. 
E.S. GorF: Modifications of the tomato plant resulting 
From seed selection. 
Mrs. E. G. BRITTON: Some of the rare mosses of White . 
Top and vicinity recently collected on a trip to southwestern 
Virginia. 
J. C. ARTHUR: Galvanotropism. 
A. A. Crozier: A botanical terminology. 
Mrs. E. G. BRITTON: A proposed collection of mosses of 
New Vork state for the Columbian Exposition. 
W. P. Witson: Climbing habit of Tillandsia usneotdes. 
O. F. Cook: Some general questions in the classification of 
Myxomycetes. 
.M. CouLtter: North American Cactt. 
L. H. BatLey: Cultivated species of Brassica. 
: P. H. RoLFE: Notes on the distribution of plants in Flor- 
L. H. PAMMEL: Notes on some fungi common during the 
Season of 1892 at Ames, Towa. 
BRIEFER ARTICLES. 
Palmer’s no. 137, collected in 1885 in S. W. Chihuahua, Mex.: Palm- 
€r’s no. 211, collected in 1887 near Angeles Bay, ; 
and the Mexican Boundary Survey plant no. 1183, 
valley of the Rio Grande, below Donna Ana, N. Mex. 
- Wurzlow sent this species from Industry, Austin Co., Texas, which 
€xtends its range into the United States. 
od plants mentioned agree essen 
+ Gen. Pl. 11, 179, with some. exceptions. 
hot glabrous below, but adove; while dedow they are 
Merous minute hairs.” I may add: midrib below and ma 
tially with the description in 
First, the leaves are 
“beset with nu- 
rgin beset 
