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found in the White Mountain region, but another alpine species, 

 S. rivularis, occurs there. This is only one of several similar 

 cases hard to account for, on a theory of a residual flora, as the 

 regions are so near to each other and the conditions are so sim- 

 ilar. 



N. L. Britton, 

 Secretary pro tern. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Mr. Elmer D. Merrill has resigned his position as assistant in 

 charge of the agrostological collections of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture in order to accept an appointment in the Philip- 

 pines. 



Dr. Valery Havard, Deputy Surgeon General of the United 

 States Army, recently Chief Surgeon of the Division of Cuba, is 

 now stationed at Ft. Monroe, Virginia. 



Among the botanists visiting New York of late have been 

 Professor F. A. F. C. Went, of Utrecht, Holland, Professor Con- 

 way MacMillan of the University of Minnesota, and Dr. Theo- 

 dore Holm, of Washington, D. C. 



The February number of the Journal of Botany announces the 

 death of Mr. Alfred W. Bennett, one of the authors of Bennett 

 and Murray's Cryptogamic Botany, and otherwise well known as 

 a botanist. 



Two new Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club were pub- 

 lished in February. " The comparative Embryology of the 

 Rubiaceae," by Francis Ernest Lloyd completes No. I (pp. 

 1-112; pi. i — 1 5) of Vol. 8 ; and " The Lejeuneae of the United 

 States and Canada," by Alexander W. Evans, constitutes No. 2 

 (pp. 113-183; pi. 16-22) of the same volume. "The Life 

 History of Vittaria lineata" by E. G. Britton and Alexandrina 

 Taylor, completing Vol. 8, is soon to be published. The price of 

 No. I, separately, is #1.75, of No. 2, $1.00. 



