8Io THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. VOL: XXXII.» 
A popular article on the plants of Australia, by Mr. Adcock, is 
printed in the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society for July, 
which also contains an interesting article by E. F. im Thurn, entitled 
“ Sketches of Wild Orchids in Guiana.” 
The Journal of the National Science Club for February last contains 
a short but interesting article on the Order Diapensiacex, by 
Margaret F. Boynton, illustrated by two plates of floral dissections 
and diagrams. 
The New England Antennarias, long treated as representing a 
single very polymorphous species, form the subject of a paper by M. 
_ L. Fernald, published in the current volume of the Proceedings of the 
Boston Society of Natural History, in which six species and seven 
varieties are characterized. 
The comparative anatomy of certain genera of the Cycadacex 
forms the subject of a paper, illustrated by one double plate, 
published in the July number of the botanical Journal of the Linnean 
Society, by W. C. Worsdell. 
The Castilleias of the group of C. parviflora form the subject of a 
paper by M. L. Fernald in Ærytkea for May, in which a synoptical 
revision is given of those of northwestern America. 
Calochortus clavatus, one of the best of the Mariposa lilies for 
garden purposes, is well figured in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine for 
July. 
Under the title “ Floral Structure of Some Graminez,” Lueders 
describes aberrant spikelets of Panicum proliferum and Andropogon 
furcatus in vol. xi of the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy, 
recently issued. 
A paper on the structure and development of Dendroceras, a genus 
of liverworts, is published by Prof. D. H. Campbell in the Journal 
of the Linnean Society for July. 
West Indian Characez, collected by T. B. Blow, form the subject 
of a short paper by Henry Graves in the July number of the Journal 
of the Linnean Society, in which two Charas and three Nitellas are 
listed. One of the latter, W. dictyosperma, is described and figured 
as new. 
To the earlier lists of Wisconsin parasitic fungi, by Trelease and 
Davis, Dr. Davis, in the eleventh volume of the Zransactions of the 
Wisconsin Academy, adds a considerable number, among which is one 
new species, Lntyloma castalie Holw., on Nymphea and Nuphar. 
