466 General Notes. ee 
‘Sur la Géologie des Environs de Bex, par E. Renevier, professeur, (Ext. 
Actes de la 60° Session de la Soc. Helv. des Sc. Nat. Bex. Août t 1877.) 8vo pes Pr 
From the author. 
ayir EeP ique du Massif du Simplon 4 apropos du Tunnel Projeté, par E. 
eoe ier. (From the Bulletin de Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles. Vol. 
, No. aa Ea aas, Librarie Rouge et Dubois, 1878. 8vo, pp. 281-304. 
Set 20-21.) From the author. 
quelques Batraciens de Chine, par M. H. E. Sauvage. (Ext. du Bull. as x 
eee, Philomathiqu e de Paris 7° série ti", No, 3.. 12. Mai, 1877-) 8vo 
From the author. 
Sur les ck de aoe enasi chez Sciénoides, par M. H.. E. Sauvage. xt. 
du Bull. de la Soc. Philomathique m pa Ms aig orle ages Dia note sur 
les Sparus desfontainii, a Te le o, pp. From t 
Remarques sur la Aoao et Tu a ea iproques Pee ee par 
M. Leon Vaillant. (Ext. du Bull. Soc. Reena id Pars, 7e série, t I, No, 
10 Mars, 1877.) 8vo, i 5, planche 54. Fro uthor 
A List of the rT of the Tribe Parma Family Aphi idee, found in the United 
ee wee ke ve been heretofore name h descriptions of som ew species. 
By eonek Ph.D. (Ext. Bull. No. 2: yH. State Lab. of Nat. Hist.) Printed 
Dec. 13, 1877. 8vo, pp. 16. From the author 
eat or on the Natural History of Fort Macon. “ee C and vicinity. (No. 4.) By 
Elliott Coues and Dr. H. C. Yarrow. (E . Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., f hila., 
ie) 8vo, pp. 21-28. From the authors 
The Electric Constitution of our Solar Syste em. ByJacob Ennis. (From the Pro- 
sean. eA of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila., 1878.) 8vo, pp. 19. From 
the oe 
On dentity of certain ee species of Sigillaria with Sigillaria lepidoden- 
arifolia Brogni art. By Herman L, Fairchild. (From the Annals of the New York 
ademy of Sciences. Vol. i i, ‘No 0.5.) 8vo. pp. 129-133, with a plate. From the 
author, 
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GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY. 
THE Mycotocicat FLORA OF MINNESOTA. —Dr. A. E. Johnson 
contributes to the Bulletin of the Minnesota Academy of Natural 
Sciences, an essay of a hundred pages on the fungi of that State. 
He has collected and determined 559 species all new to the State, 
two of which are new to science, and the report is the result of 
the examination of more than ten thousand specimens. The 
essay is mainly an enumeration of the species, and must prove of 
much assistance to local botanists, and though we are unable to 
pass a critical judgment on the quality of the work, it evidently 
reflects credit on the Society and State from which it emanates. 
Licneous Frora or Iowa.—In a page reprinted from the 
Valley Naturalist, Prof. J. E. Todd gives a list of the trees and 
woody shrubs and vines of South-western Iowa, a region varying 
in altitude from about 1000 to 1300 feet above the sea, the pre- 
vailing soil being that of the loess. 
On THE Growra or Coccutus INnpicus—I have noticed that 
the termini of the branches on a plant of Cocculus indicus, in the 
Horticultural Building in Fairmount Park, were coiled to the left 
about objects that came within reach. These terminal coils, which 
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