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them also. Dr. Vines:in the January Fournal of Botany pub- 
lishes a “‘ History of the Scorpioid Cyme.’ The term has been: 
used in two senses, resulting in considerable confusion; in the 
one sense it is made to include the helicoid cyme, while. in the 
other the scorpioid and helicoid cymes are distinct. The latter 
which appears to be the best usage is, in the books used in this 
country, followed in Gray’s Botanical Text Book, #th edition ; 
Bessey’s Botany for High Schools and Colleges; Prantl’s Text 
Book of Botany; McNab’s Botany and Sach’s Text Book of 
Botany. The erroneous usage is followed in Wood's Class Book 
of Botany; Wood's Botanist and Florist ; Thome’s Structural 
and Physiological Botany ; Youman’s Second Book of Botany ; 
and the old edition of Gray’s Botanical Text Book. In Dr 
Vines’ paper by an: unfortunate printer’s blunder, Figs. 1 and 2 
are transposed.——An important work on the Morphology of the 
Floridez by Agardh, has recently been published in Leipsic. 
Dr. Kuntze has been studying the “Gulf Weed” (Sargassum bac- 
cYferum ), and finds that there are several species, instead of but one, 
as has commonly been supposed. His results are given in his 
recently published treatise, Revision von Sargassum und das so- 
of Indiana m 
Professor Hilgard upon the grounds of the University of California 
it seems evident,” to quote the words of the report, “that there 
the three more hardy kinds of Cinchona (C. succirubra, C. offi- 
fectly hardy” upon the University grounds. “The Plants of | 
the Summit of Mt. Marcy® is the title of an interesting pamphlet 
by C. H. Peck, the State Botanist of New York, reprinted from 
the Seventh Report of the Adirondack Survey. Upon the open 
Summit 137 species were found, distributed as follows; alge, 1; 
fungi, 7; lichens, 31; hepaticae, 10; mosses, 32; lycopods, 3; 
Symnosperms, 3; angiosperms, 50.——Thomas Meehan has re- 
cently reprinted in the Gardener's Monthly, and in pamphlet 
form, his paper on the Objects of Sex, and of Odor in Flowers, 
read before the A. A. A. S. at Saratoga, 1879]. G. Baker's 
ynopsis of the Aloinea and Yuccoidez,” fills ninety-three 
pages of the October and December numbers of the Yournal off 
the Linnean Society. It contains full descriptions of all the spe- : 
