768 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. | [Vor. XXXIV. 
Notes. — Simultaneously with the concluding number of Erythea 
appears the first number of Vol. V of Zoe, which, after a suspension 
of several years, has resumed publication. In its new form Zoe is 
a thin octavo and apparently to be devoted to botany, so that, judg- 
ing from this first number, it is a pretty close equivalent of the 
discontinued Ærythea. 
No. 19 of the Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard 
University, constituting No. 25 of the current volume of the Proceed- 
ings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is by Mr. M. L. 
Fernald and deals with Mexican and Central American phanerogams, 
chiefly Labiatee and Solanacez. Revisions are given of Salvia and 
Solanum of the subsection Torvaria, as represented in that region. 
The former comprises 217 species (contrasted with 118 recognized 
by Bentham in 1848, and 126 recognized by Hemsley in 1887). A 
very useful addition to the paper is an alphabetical list of collectors, 
with an indication of the disposal that has been made of their 
specimens, 
In the Atti del R. Istituto d'ncoraggiamento di Napoli for 1899 
Professor Comes publishes a monographic revision of the genus 
Nicotiana, illustrated by seven plates. 
M. Crépin has a note on a probable hybrid of Rosa carolina and 
R. nitida in Rhodora for June. 
Under the title * Economic Grasses, III," Professor Scribner issues, 
as Bulletin No. 20 of the Division of Agrostology of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, an illustrated synopsis ofsthe 
tribes and genera of Graminez that will prove useful to all students 
of that important family of plants. [ 
Carex willdenowii and its allies are given comparative treatment by 
Holm in the American Journal of Science for July. 
Under the title of “Icones Flore Japonice” the College of 
Science of the Imperial University of Tokyo is issuing a folio con- 
sisting of plates, accompanied by bibliography in Latin or English, 
and descriptive text in Japanese. The first fascicle, published in 
February, illustrates Prunus pseudo-cerasus, a spontanea, and /sopyrum 
nipponicum. 
Messrs. Ito and Matsumura have begun the publication of a 
Tentamen Flore Lutchuensis in the Journal of the Science College of 
the University of Tokyo. 
