316 General Notes. [April, 
specimens are in generous quantity for each species, and in most 
cases are put up loosely in envelopes pasted to the pages, thus 
making them doubly valuable for microscopical study. 
Pinus BANKSIANA LAMB., ON THE SEA Coast oF MAINE —Mr. C. - 
G. Atkins, of Bucksport, Me., reports finding trees of this species 
in Orland, Hancock county, Me., and also in Washington county, 
near Harrington. The same tree was reported to him as growing 
on Cape Rosier, Schoodic point, and Beal’s island. This pine has 
hitherto been catalogued as confined to “the northern borders” 
of Maine. 
In this connection it may be well to point out that Professor 
Babcock in his “Flora of Chicago and Vicinity” (Zhe Lens, 
1872), records this species as being “abundant for several miles 
along the L. S. & M.S. R.R.,” near the city; a locality not noted 
in our books and catalogues. 
- Bentuam’s New C1iassiFicATION OF THE Orcuips.—At the 
meeting of the Linnean Society, Jan. 20, 1881, Bentham presented 
an important paper embodying the results of his detailed exami- 
nation of all the genera proposed or established. He re-arranges 
them under five tribes and twenty-seven sub-tribes, as follows: 
Tribe 1. EPIDENDREA, Tribe 11. VANDEZ. 
Sub-tribe 1. Pleurothallez. Sub-tribe 1. Eulophiez. 
Ug 2. Microstylez. ba, 2. Cymbidiex. 
Gs 3. Lipariez. “s 3. Cyrtopodiex. 
ne 4. Dendrobiezx. - 4. Stanhopiez. 
“ 5. Eriex. . zs 5. Maxillariez 
is 6. Bletiez. bc 6. Oncidiez 
‘ “ 7. Coelogynez. se 7. Sarcanthez, 
on 8. Stenoglossez.. es 8. Notyilez. 
es 9. Leliex. 
Tribe 11. NEOTTIEA. Tribe Iv. OPHRYPEA. 
Sub tribe 1, Vanillez. Sub-tribe 1. Serapiadez. 
- 2. Corymbiez “ 2. Habenariex. 
ge) 3. Spiranthee. , 66 3. Disez. 
a” 4. Diuridez. 6 4. Coryciez. 
* 5. Arethuseze. - 
ves 6. Limodorez., 
Tribe v. CyPRIPEDIEZ. 
BoranicaL News.—Mr. D. L. James has published in the 
Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History (January, 
1881), a valuable paper entitled “ Notices of the Floras of Cin- 
cinnati, published from 1815 to 1879,” in which he enumerates 
and comments upon the published lists, four in number. r. 
Killebrew, the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Ten- 
nessee, has recently issued from his office a pamphlet of 164 
pages on “ Meadows and Pastures.” The general treatment of 
the subject is much like that followed in Flint’s “ Grasses an 
Forage Plants,” but it is much simplified so as to be more easily 
read by those who are not botanists. It is a valuable little work, 
and although not written for botanists, will prove interesting to 
