80 The Botanical Gazette. [February, 
Mr. Chas. L. Smith presents a synoptical view of Central American — 
Pyrenomycetes, with descriptions of new species. 
ANOTHER ONE of the “Contributions from the U. S. National Her 
barium”, being no. 8 of vol. I, has lately appeared, being of special in- 
terest as containing all the unpublished botanical manuscript of the — 
late Dr. George Vasey, except that which had been prepared for the — 
concluding part of his Monograph of the Grasses of the United States 
and British America. This material appears under the titles “Notes 
on some Pacific Coast Grasses” (in which 8 species are considered), — 
“Descriptions of new or noteworthy grasses from the U. S.” (in which 
over 30 new species are described, 17 of which belong to Poa), and 
“Descriptions of new grasses from Mexico” (16 in number). In addi 
tion to these numbers, Mr. J. M. Holzinger describes four new species 
from Texas and Colorado, and gives a list of 17 plants, new to Florida, 
collected by J. H. Simpson; Mr.-}, N. Rose describes 3 new plants; 
and Mr. J. W. Eckfeldt gives a list of 42 lichens from California and 
Mexico, collected by Dr. Palmer from 1888 to 1892. 
“BULLETIN of the Maine State College Laboratory of Natural His d 
_ tory” is the descriptive title of another local publication to be i a 
at irregular intervals. The opposition of the GAZETTE to the multi: : 
plication of serials of an uncertain life tenure and limited distributio? 
is well-known. The present instance appears less objectionable than 
usual, as the number before us (Vol. I, no. 2) contains only matter : 
local interest. It is dated January, 1893, although the number reached 
us only last month (Jan. 1894). It consists of two bare lists with loca | 
ities, both prepared by F. L. Harvey and E. P. Briggs, one of 
phanerogams and vascular cryptogams of the Blake Herbarium, - 
it came to the college” (the only information descriptive of the collec ! 
tion), enumerating about 3,500 species, and the other of the phan § 
gams and vascular cryptogams of the state, principally from the vicl® 
ity of Orono, the college town, numbering less than a thousill” 
species. ” 
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