BOTANY. 65 



1878. 



Flora of the Miami Valley. By A. P. Morgan. Published by the 

 Literary Union, Dayton, Ohio, 1878. 



A pamphlet of sixty-eight pages, including the Phenogams, Ferns, 

 Mosses, Liverworts, Lichens, and Fungi of Miami, Montgomery, Butler, 

 Warren, and Hamilton Counties. 



Botrychium lunarioides var. obliquum. By Mrs. E. J. Spence. 

 Botanical Gazette, Vol. Ill, p. 89. April, 1878. 



Specimen with two disconnected, well-developed spikes. 



Report of the Geology of Darke County. By A. C. Lindemuth. 

 Second Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio. Vol. Ill, part I. 

 Geology, 1878, p. 496. 



The "most common forest trees noticed" are given (thirty-two in 

 number) both by popular and botanical name (on pp. 511-2). 



1879. 



Fresh- water Algae; synopsis of discoveries and researches, in 1878 

 by Francis Wolle, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, VI. p. 281 

 Jan. and Feb., 1879. 



Several of the species reported in this article for America are described 

 as new, among them, Chantransia beardslei, found at Painesville, Ohio. 



Catalogue of the Flowering Plants, Ferns, and Fungi growing in 

 the vicinity of Cincinnati. By Joseph F. James. Journal of the Cin- 

 cinnati Society of Natural History, April, 1879; also separate pp. 1-27. 



The author compiled the work from personal observation, and from 

 the catalogues of Messrs. Lee and Clark. Assistance from others is also 

 acknowledged. The list of fungi was "copied bodily from the excellent 

 catalogue of Mr. Lea published in 1846," and a few collected since, added. 

 The corrections in nomenclature and orthography were made by Prof. 

 Charles H. Peck. Eight hundred and ninety phenogams and vascular 

 cryptogams (including also Chara fiexilis) and three hundred and nine- 

 teen fungi are given, or a total of one thousand two hundred and eighteen 

 species and varieties. 



Agaricus Morgani Peck. By A. P. Morgan. Botanical Gazette. 

 Vol. IV, p. 208. Sept. 1879. 



Notes extremely large specimen, largest in the world; mentions color 

 of spores, green. 



Notes from Toledo, Ohio. By J. A. Sanford. Botanical Gazette, 

 Vol. IV, p. 219. October, 1879. 



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