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the sporangia, the Ophioglorsacee being excluded by their 
“straight estivation” [vernation] and referred, as is na 
Zacewe 
division or ot ig ating pw ed on the sori. For genera he is 
disposed to make m the venation than is the present mode, 
and less of pea aa sa tt BE and so discards Phegopteris. 
Finally, he takes up the questions relating to Aspidium, both as 
to generic comprehension and nomenclature, and proposes to keep 
Lastrea and Polystichum as genera. 
The Genus Hydrolea is reviewed by A. W. Bennett in the 53d 
~ many-seeded ovary, axile placentation, and leaves invariabl 
imple.” These characters come down to two, the med aey 
mane ovules and the crawled ovary. But the new Califor- 
nian genus Draperia Torr. stands in the gap, having the beg 
ovary as well as H habit of Nama, with the geminate ovules of 
pr y sk Phacelia, 
62 species are found which do not form of the British Flora,” 
oe ae more than three are decidedly arctic, viz. Gentiana 
ogyne rotata, and Epilobium latifotiu m.” All 
theo of these come down to comparatively low latitudes and low 
levels in North America. A plant of much interest, and which 
should 1 be thoroughly compared with that so named in North 
