78 The American Naturalist. [January, 
to occur only in one place, so far as I can learn in Angolia, Africa. In 
the summer of 1887 Mr. Marsland, a student of the University of 
Nebraska, collected three specimens in Manitou, Colorado, and 
handed them to me for identification. Failing to determine the spec- 
ies satisfactorily, the specimens weré referred to Mr. A. P. Morgan, 
who pronounced them 7Zy/ostoma angolense. Besides this stalked puff- 
l specimens of Bovista circumscissa Berk. and Curt., Secotium 
warnet Peck, and Lycoperdon fragile Vitt., were found in the grass, 
Descending into the valley on the road back I gathered specimens 
of Clematis ligusticifolia-climbing over the underbrush. The leaves of 
this also were contorted and frequently almost destroyed by 4cidium 
clematidis D. C. In a pond two species of Chara were collected, 
Chara coronata A, Br. and Chara—(undetermined). 
Circea /utitiana, a common plant in eastern States, but not yet dis- 
covered in Eastern Nebraska, and not given by Coulter in his Rocky 
Mountain Botany, was noticed in a shaded nook. It has also been 
collected during the summer near Valentine. Specimens were also 
collected of Euphorbia petaloidea Engelm., Monarda citriodora Cerv.; 
Froelichia ploridana Moquin., Lpomea leptophylla Torr., and Asclepias 
verticillata L., var pumilla Gray. 
On the Middle Loup River, in the same county, and representing 
the same flora, we found in stagnant pools, Ricia fluitans L., Utricul- 
aria minor L., Pediastrum angulatum (Ehrb.) Menegh. and Merismo- 
pedia violacea (Breb.) Ktz., a little violet-colored plant that has not 
n known before to occur in America. It is distinguished from 
known American species by its smaller size and violet color. Speci- 
mens of Triglochin maritimum L., and Commelyna virginica L., were 
found in low places, but they are ni rare—H, J. WEBBER, Botani- 
cal Laboratory, University of Nebraska. 
Bailey’s Studies of Carex.—The initial number of the Memoirs 
of the Torrey Botanical Club is devoted to an article by Professor L. 
H. Bailey, entitled, “ Studies of the Types of Various Species of the 
Genus Carex.’ The purpose of the paper is well stated in the open- 
ing paragraph, which may well be reproduced here: 
“ An attempt has been made during the past year to see all the ex- 
isting types of North American species of Carex. These types are 
widely scattered, largely in the Old World, and the whereabouts of 
many of them have been entirely unknown. Many of them had 
never been seen by a student of the genus since their publication, and 
there was reason to believe that some species which had been seen by 



