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its small flowers as well as for the remoteness of the ne fe Sane 
After what has been done for Calochortus by Mr aa in this 
country and Mr. Baker in England, we may soon hope to under- 
stand this attractive but still difficult genus. The section Cyclo- 
bothra, ak aed es uf wine species, with fibrose-tunicated 
ulbs and n w pods, northern ones before referred to it 
constitute Hake 8 Se ction “Mason: ; and he distributes Calo- 
elaboration of Lilia A. G. 
7. Asexual Groth ge the Prothallus of Pteris Cretica.—D 
Farlow’s Pe Nani eta last spring in the 10th volume of the 
een reprin eons (14th) volume of the Jo 
nal of Microscopical Science, with a few additions “at pi author. 
The are neatly reproduced in two plate The correction 
ceedings vol. 10, is not _. The author of the e paper has now 
promise. Other secre have been more or less used; - we 
were not aware of the employment of Zizania. The British 
market is to be supplied sete ma Ue Canada (Ontario), oy a 
company organized ye the p 
9. Botany of S. Pacific Beploring Expedition under Admiral 
Witkes.—More than a dozen years ago, the Library Committee of 
Congress began the printing - of the 17th volume of the results of the 
Am. Jour. Sc1.—THiRrpD —* ‘ou. VIII, No. 46.—Oct., 1874. 
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