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S. Watson, collected in Southern California by the Rev. Mr. 
Nevin. There is also Anemone Henryi, of Oliver, from Central 
China, a true Hepatica, with round-cordate leaves crenate-lobulate, 
but yellow-flowered. The ovaries are figured with a terminal 
stigma; but that is probably not quite right. 
Sir Joseph Hooker has edited and brought out the fifth edition 
of that most popular book, Bentham’s Handbook of the British 
Flora (Reeve & Co.), in the same form as the fourth, but con- 
densed into rather fewer pages, the specific names and characters 
being brought into one paragraph. This condensation has en- 
abled the editor to incorporate a good many notes and needful 
alterations, and some few recently added species, in all respects 
following the author’s lines. Botanists will be glad to have this 
characteristic work kept up. 
Professor Volney Rattan, of the San Francisco High School for 
Girls, has brought out an Analytical Key to West Coast Botany, 
“containing descriptions of sixteen hundred species of flowering 
plants, growing west of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade crests, 
from San Diego to Puget Sound,” in 128 pages. It should be 
helpful to students. 
Mr. Thomas Howell, of Arthur, Oregon, has issued a Catalogue 
of the Known Plants of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, down 
to and including the Pteridophytes, pp. 28, 8vo. 
Dr. ‘L. F. Wood and Gerald McCarthy have brought out a 
Wilmington Flora, a List of Plants growing about Wilmington, 
North Carolina, with date of Flowering. A map of the county 
is annexed. It is published by the Elisha Mitchell Scientific 
Society. The district is of peculiar interest. 
The California State Board of Forestry has issued its First 
Biennial Report, pp. 252, with maps. There are reports on the 
forests of the most southern counties, by the chairman of the 
State Board, Mr. Kinney; on those of the Sierra-district farther 
north, by Mr. Wagner; on the trees and shrubs of San Diego Co., 
by C. R. Orcutt; and a detailed and important one on the Red- 
wood, by the engineer, Mr. Vischer, with a supplement relating 
to the quantity of standing timber other than Redwood. 
Dr. Arthur, the Botanist to the New York Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station, communicates his Report for the year 1885 and also 
that of 188%. In both the pear-blight is treated at large; also 
the rotting of tomatoes, of cherries and plums, the plum-leaf fun- 
gus, the mildew of strawberries, lettuce, etc., and several illustra- 
tions are given in the letter press; those of the earlier report are 
neat and well printed. 
A small supplementary fasciculus now completes the second 
volume of Dr. Beccaris’ Malesia, with very full indexes of the 
two volumes, both of names and subjects. 
Sympetaleia, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xii, 161, is an anomalous 
gamopetalous genus of Loasace, of which Dr. Streets collected 
a solitary specimen in Lower California at Pulpito Point. As it 
was published in the same year with the first volume of the 
Genera Plantarum (1877), it was not there taken up, and conse- 
