546 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST.  [VOL. XXXIII. 
The Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for March contains a 
revision of the United States species of Dolicholus (Rhynchosia), by 
Miss Vail; notes on some new and little known plants of the Ala- 
bama flora, by Dr. Mohr; new plants from Wyoming, by Professor 
Nelson ; some new species from Washington, by K. M. Wiegand ; and 
Part XXVI of the enumeration of the plants collected by Dr. H. H. 
Rusby in South America, 1885-86. 
Part II of the current volume of Minnesota Botanical Studies con- 
tains articles on a considerable range of botanical subjects, among 
which are one or two of morphological and physiological value. 
Professor Nelson tells in Buletin No. go of the Wyoming Experi- 
ment Station about the trees of that state. Characters of easy appli- 
cation are employed for their ready determination. 
The newly begun Comunicaciones of the Museo Nacional of Buenos 
Aires contain articles by Spegazzini descriptive of South American 
phanerogams. 
To students of the ecological phases of plant distribution an article 
by Jaccard on “La Flore du Haut Bassin de la Sallanche et du 
Trient,” in the Revue Générale de Botanigue for March 15, will prove 
of interest. 
Anemone, the “ wind-flower” of most persons, is said, by C. H. 
Toy, in Rhodora for March, to be really the flower of Na‘man — an- 
other name for Adonis, from whose blood the red anemone is sup- 
posed to have sprung. 
Anemone riparia, a large-flowered, slender-fruited form of the north- 
ern Atlantic region, is separated from 4. virginiana and A. cylindrica 
by M. L. Fernald in Rhodora for March. 
Epilobium obcordatum and Ceanothus integerrimus, of California, 
are figured in the Botanical Magazine for February. 
Viburnum lantanoides, which is commonly described as of irregular 
or straggling habit of growth, is shown by Dr. Ida Keller to have 
a decided tendency to the sympodial method of branching. — Prac. 
Phila. Acad., 1898. 
Cirrhopetalum robustum, a new Guinea orchid, is said, by MacMahon, 
in the Queensland Agricultural Journal for January, to be a good 
example of a carrion plant. Its flowers are pollinated by blue-bottle 
flies by aid of a very ingenious mechanism, 
