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would be broken up. But it is now stated (Gard. Chron., Dee. 15 
of all countries, specially those of dry regions. .G. 
3. Dr. Engelmann’s new botanical Papers in the Transactions 
of the Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. iii, Nov.—Dec., 1877.--The most 
Important of these papers is an appendix to that on The Oaks 
of the United States, read in the spring of 1876, and pub- 
lished soon afterward. A full notice of it appeared in this 
of the section Sabina, which fills ten pages with the discussion 
of our nine s ecies, Mexican and West Indian being included. 
The third paper is a small one on The Flowering of Agave Shawii, 
with a plate illustrating floral details. It must suffice merely to 
announce these publications, which are indispensable to working 
botanists. ee 
A new range for two Orchids is given by the Rev. Dr. 
Wizse of Oswego, New York, who sends Listera australis and 
Habenaria leucophlia, gathered by him in “Lily Marsh,” nine 
miles east of Oswego. ‘The first was not known north of the pine 
arrens of New Jersey, and is a southern plant. The secon 
longs to the district from central Ohio west, but Mr. Hankenson 
tals, AG 
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Work is full of interesting facts and observations and is excel- 
