372 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. : [VoL. XXXII. 
Professor Marcus E. Jones, of Salt Lake City, Utah, has issued a pam- 
phlet of some forty-five pages octavo, in which a considerable number 
of species of plants are described as new to science. Having had 
the good fortune, as he states, to see nearly all the types of North 
American Astragali during the past year, Mr. Jones has not a little 
to say about this much-vexed genus. A round-topped Composite 
shrub from the Panamint Mountains of California is made the type © 
of a new genus, close to Dysodia, under the name /nyonia dyso- 
divides. 
No. 7 of Professor Greene’s “Studies in the Composite,” pub- 
lished in part in the signatures of /%¢/onéa issued Feb. 25, 1898, con- 
tains a rearrangement of the Composite genus Actinella, which, since 
the name is held to be invalid because it was early used in a differ- 
ent sense, is renamed Tetraneuris as to most of its species, and 
Rydbergia as to Actinella grandiflora Gray and its variety glabra. 
Eight species are described as new. 
The Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for March contains 
a paper by Professor Greene on “New Composite from New 
Mexico,” in which seventeen species or varieties and one genus, 
Wootoria, are described as new. 
The Pacific Coast Valerianellas, under the generic names Plec- 
tritis and Aligera, form the subject of a brief synopsis by Mr. Suks- 
dorf in Zythea for March. One additional species, A/igera Jepsonit, 
is described. 
Dr. Small contributes a thirteenth part of his studies in the bot- 
any of the Southern United States to the Buletin of the Torrey 
Botanical Club for March. Twenty-four species and one genus, 
Forcipella, pertaining to the Paronychiacezx, are described as new. 
Crépin’s section Minutifoliz, of the genus Rosa, receives a second 
species in Rosa stellata, of the New Mexican region, described and 
figured by Professor Wooton in the Buletin of the Torrey Botanical 
Club for March. 
Lilæa, a monotypic monocotyledonous genus widely distributed 
through the western part of the American continent, and concerning 
the systematic position of which there is diversity of opinion, has 
been studied by Professor Campbell, whose paper, published in the 
Annals of Botany for March, leads to the conclusion that while there 
is not much evidence of the direct derivation of this simple type from 
the Pteridoplytes, there is likewise no evidence that it represents a 
