No. 383.] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 885 
enumeration of Dr. Rusby’s plants collected in South America in 
1885—1886 ; the description of a new Floridan Utricularia, by J. H. 
Barnhart ; and a paper by Ellis and Everhart, descriptive of new 
species of fungi from various localities. 
H. B. Small, in Ze Ottawa Naturalist, is publishing a series of 
popular articles on vegetation in the Bermudas. 
The genus Arenaria is revised in a descriptive monograph in 
Nos. 232, 233 of the Journal of the Linnean Society, dated July 1, 
1898, by F. N. Williams, whose critical notes on Cerastium are run- 
ning through the current numbers of the Journal of Botany. 
Ledum glandulosum, of the northwest coast region, is well figured 
in No, 1338 of the Botanical Magazine. 
Viburnum tomentosum and its variety plicatum form the subject of 
an interesting illustrated article by A. Rehder in Méller’s Deutsche 
Gartner-Zeitung for August. 
Aristolochia sipho, as grown in the botanical garden at Jena, is 
figured in Möller’s Deutsche Gértner-Zeitung of August 13. 
The Liliaceae of the French Congo are brought together in a 
revision by Hua in the Bulletin of the Société d’ Histoire Naturelle 
d’ Autun for 1897. As might have been expected, a large part of the 
species are described as new. 
Under the title Studies on American Grasses, the United States 
Department of Agriculture issues as Bulletin No. rr of its Division 
of Agrostology a revision of the North American species of Calama- 
grostis, by T. H. Kearney, and descriptions of a number of new or 
little-known grasses, by F. Lamson-Scribner. Seventeen plates and 
twelve figures in the text illustrate the papers. 
The Bulletin of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, 
No. 16, recently issued, contains a list of 245 mosses occurring in 
the Province. 
In the July number of Hedwigia, Rehm publishes a fourth part of 
his notes on the fungi collected in Brazil by Ule, and Dietel publishes 
some observations on the Uredineae of Mexico. 
