1880. | in the United States in the year 1879. 867 
tions of all the less known ferns of the Southwest, z. e., the Utah- 
Arizona region. In all sixty-six species are noticed, and one fig- 
ured in Plate xxx. It should be remembered that while the 
preface to the work bears the date of 1877, the date of its actual 
appearance in the volume of which it forms a part is p®operly 
1879. A few copies were separately distributed some time in 
advance of the publication of the whole report, but the exact 
date of this distribution is not known to the writer of this paper. 
‘The great work on the “ Ferns of North America” with its fine 
colored plates was’nearly brought to a close during the year 
1879. It will forever remain a monument to the ability of its 
author. 
In “Fern Etchings,’ by John Williamson we have a notable 
example of the good work which may be done by the painstaking 
lover of plants. The volume contains plates of sixty-eight ferns 
of the United States, with letterpress descriptions of each. 
G. E. Davenport’s “ Catalogue of the ‘Davenport Herbarium’ 
of North American Ferns ” is interesting as being the first com- 
plete catalogue of the ferns of this country. It contains one hun- 
dred and forty-two species, besides sixteen varieties. 
Among other publications, Mr. J. F. James’ list of vascular 
cryptogams in his catalogue of Cincinnati plants, above referred 
to, and Prof. J. W. Chickering’s list in his catalogue of the plants 
of Dakota and Montana (Bull. U. S. Geol. and Gograph. Survey, 
Vol. Iv), deserve mention. Baron Eggers’ similar list, in his 
“Flora of St. Croix and the Virgin islands” (Bull. U. S. Nat. 
Museum) should also probably be noticed here. 
J. Phanerogams.—The most notable contribution in this depart- 
ment is the “ Report upon the Botanical Collections made in por- 
tions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico and 
Arizona, during the years 1871 to 1875,” by Dr. J. T. Rothrock, 
being Vol. vi of the Reports upon the U. S. Geographical Sur- 
veys west of the 1ooth meridian, in charge of Lieut. Wheeler. 
The work contains a General Report, in which the general fea- 
tures of the flora of the Colorado and the New Mexico districts 
are separately described. This portion also contains some valu- 
able and interesting notes upon economic botany. The main 
Part of the work consists of the catalogue proper. This is mod- 
eled after Sereno Watson's “ Botany ” of the Clarence King Re- 
Ports. All the genera and species not contained in Gray’s Man- 
ual, or in Watson’s Botany, are here fully described. : 
