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Delphinium, three of Roripa, and one of Berberis. He also takes up Sophia 
for Sisymbrium incisum and its allies, as an older generic name than Descu- 
rainea, adopted by Engler and Prantl, and proposes a new genus, Neobeckia, 
to include the watercress and horse-radish types of Nasturtium (Roripa), 
N. lacustre of the Synoptical Flora becoming Neobeckia aquatica. Miss Alice 
Eastwood *3 has described seven new Californian species belonging to the genera 
Sedum, Anemone, Hosackia, Lupinus, Heuchera, Brodizea, and Cynoglossum. 
Mr. Robert Ridgway has suggested™ the possibility of two native species of 
Tecoma, describing the forms as they have come under his observation, but 
applying no names. Mr. J. G. Baker’s has concluded his synopsis of the 
genus Brodiza, the last part touching upon several North American species. 
Mr. J. W. Toumey has described * a new Opuntia from Arizona, one of the 
shrubby cylindropuntias. M. A. Franchet has concluded his account of new 
Chinese plants.” The last part contains descriptions of twelve new species 
of Lonicera, Dr. C. Hart Merriam has described ® a new Abies from Arizona. 
It is from the San Francisco Mountain region, and is remarkable for the color 
and character of its bark, being one of the most conspicuous trees on the 
mountain between the altitudes of 8950 and 500 ft. The substance of the 
technical description is as follows : 
ABIES ARIZONICA. About 15™ high: bark a highly elastic fine grained cork, 
whitish or grayish (usually creamy white), with irregularly sinuous grayish ridges: 
leaves of cone bearing branches thick, subtriangular in section, sharp-pointed at apex, 
about 2™ long ; leaves of lower branches much longer, flatter, blunt and notched at 
apex, 2.5 to 3° long: cones dark purple, slender, medium or rather small; scales 
much broader than long, strongly convex laterally, purple on both sides; bract (with- 
out awn) reaching to or past middle of scale, its body much broader than long. 
A full account of Aspidium cristatum X marginale Davenport, published in 
this journal, has just been given” by the author in connection with a Faxon 
illustration. A revision of the North. American species of Cephalozia has 
been published by Professor L. M. Underwood.* In the fourth part™ of Mr. 
ie Rydberg’s Notes on Potentilla four new species are described. 
Studies in the botany of the southeastern United States Dr. John K. Small 
scribes a new Rumex from Louisiana, revises the genera Polygonella and 
Warea, and substitutes Yeatesia for the previously used Gatesia of Gray. 
“Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 6 : 422-430, pl. 53-59- 1896. 
“Garden and Forest 9: 453. 1896. x6 Garden and Forest 9 +432 1896. 
SGardener’s Chronicle III, 20:459. 1896. *7 Jour. de Botanique 10 : 309- 1896. 
8 : 
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 10:115-118. 1896. 
* Bot. Gazette 19: 494. 1896. : 2 Bull, Torr. Bot. Club, 4 ¢ 394 
* Garden and Forest 9:444. 1896. 23 Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, . €. 405+ 
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Bull. Torr, Bot. Club 23 : 381. 1896. 
