514 The Botanical Gazette. [December, 
THE GENUS Lathyrus is presented in a paper by Mr. Theodore G. 
White in the Zorrey Bulletin (Oct.). In looking over the herbarium 
material from North and Central America, thirty-three species are 
recognized, and an artificial key is provided for them. Of these four 
species are described as new. 
stricta in the northern states; some new and rare Polygonums also by 
Mr. Small; five new species from Florida, by Mr. T. H. Kearney; and 
two new Bolivian genera by Dr. H. H. Rusby. : 
THE ANNUAL report of the state botamist of New York for 1893 has 
just appeared. Considerable additions have been made to the herba- 
rium, numerous notes as to the variations of local plants are recorded, 
and a number of new species are described. In addition to the de- 
scriptions of new fungi, a ne arex, whi 
en aaa var. elliptica Boott, is described by Dr. E. C. Howe as C. 
chit. 
i 
Swietenia. In the same number Prof. R. Chodat presents some €x- 
tensive studies of certain Protococcides, illustrating them with eight 
m Oct. . R. Buser protests 
against Ascherson’s substitution of Cypripedilum for Cypripedium. 
um sac 
rophilum, The morphology and physiology of these four species — 
were carefully investigated. ' 
Pror. D. P. PENHALLOw has been studying the anatomy of the wood 
author (ein Schulbuch ist es nicht). 
