212 The Botanical Gazette. (May, 
A NEw Ostrya, from Arizona (Yavapai county), within the Grand 
Cajfion of the Colorado, is described and figured by Mr. F. V. Coville 
in Garden and Forest (March 21). Our only other species (O. Virgin- 
jana) extends westward to the meridian of E. Nebraska and E. exas, 
and to discover a second species nearly a thousand miles west of this 
is a matter of considerable interest. The species was originally col- 
Arts, codperating with Superintendent Gowing of the State pe 
ary schools. e instruction in botany will be given by Principal 
Charles H. Clark, A. M., of Sanborn Seminary, Kingston, N. H, The 
by Isopyrum biternatum, by D. T. MacDougal, in which the tentative 
nitrogen; 
hich the 
5 valuable studies 
done so much t0 
” are noted, se¥ 
5 posit, 
on. Mr. 
Lastwoodia are each illustrated by a plate. The gr 
degee’s Lower California collection of 1893 are presen 
sor F. Lamson-Scribner. 
He shows that this satisfies “the demand of history, 
botanical evidence,” and that we will have to give up 
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