898 General Notes, { November, 
New Mexican,” describes Astragalus Gilensis, A. mogollonicus, 
Potentilla subviscosa, Megarrhiza Gilensis, Senecio cardamine, 
Howellii and Polygonum Parryi; Professor Eaton continues his 
valuable notes ‘‘ New or little known Ferns of the United States,’ 
and describes a fern from Florida (discovered by A. H. Curtiss), 
Aspidium trifoliatum Swartz, not hitherto known in the United 
States; G. E. Davenport’s note on “ Vernation in Botrychia,” is 
interesting as recording the case of “two Botrychiums whose 
buds have thrown a doubt, for the first time in my experience, on 
the reliability of the bud-form as a test for the determination of 
the smaller species of the genus;” W. H. Leggett describes the 
curious bellows-like structure of the anthers of Rhexia Virginica, 
by means of which the pollen is actually blown out upon te 
body of a visiting insect! The September Gardener's Menthly 
contains an interesting account, by Thomas Meehan, of the snow 
plant (Sarcodes sanguinea) of the Sierras. As a result of many 
examinations it is determined to be “an annual, germinating on 
small pine roots, and subsequently obtaining subsistence from the 
earth, as Aphyllon and Epiphegus do.”. In the same number Mr. 
Meehan records the receipt of specimens of horseradish seeds, 
which are very rarely seen; these came from Maine. new 
tree fern, Cyathea monstrabilia, from Jamaica, is described by G. S. 
Jenman, in the September Yournal of Botany. The trunk is four 
or more feet in height, and three inches in diameter ——C. M 
Vorce, in the Am, Mo. Microscopical Fournal, describes, ae 
whic 
one compact 16mo volume, the morphology and physiology, : 
the outlines of classification which composed the two ook of 
the English edition. In introducing it to American students !P 
second or middle class schools, the editor hopes “ that It may 
serve to direct attention to the study of plants as living things 
rather than to their bare analysis and classification.” ——Geo- A. 
Bates, of Salem, Mass., offers for sale bound copies of Dr. Far- 
low’s new book, “The Marine Alge of New England and the 
Adjacent Coast.” Joseph F. James’ short paper on “ The Cen- 
tury Plant,” read before the Cincinnati Society of Nat. History, 
contains a number of interesting facts about this valuable plant. 
E. Lamson Scribner, of Girard College, Philadelphia, nee 
America 1 
undertaken to publish sets of the grasses of North Am 
fascicles of about one hundred species each. Specimens 1n quan- 
__ tity are solicited from all parts of the country, especially from : 
. for this: 
sed for January next. It is sincerely to be hoped - vat is i 
