1896.] Botany. 1045 
fum), 1894 and 1895 by Professor Nelson. The catalogue of plants 
includes 1118 species of Spermatophytes, 14 Pteriodophytes, 26 Bryo- 
phytes, 3 Algæ, 8 Fungi and 7 Lichens, making a total of 1176. The 
trees of Wyoming are listed as follows: Rocky Mountain Yellow Pine 
(Pinus ponderosa scopulorum), Rocky Mountain White Pine (P. flex- 
ilis), Lodge-pole Pine (P. murrayana), Engelmann’s Spruce (Picea 
engelmanni), Blue Spruce (P. pungens), Douglas Spruce (Pseudotsuga 
douglasii), Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana), Black Cottonwood (Pop- 
ulus angustifolia), Rydberg’s Cottonwood (P. acuminata), Quaking 
Aspen (P. tremuloides), Sand-bar Willow (Salix longifolia), Almond 
Willow (S. amygdaloides), two other species (S. flavescens, S. lasiandra), 
Green Ash (Fraxinus viridis), Box Elder (Negundo aceroides), Scrub 
Oak ( Quercus undulata), Wild Plum (Prunus americana), Wild Cherry 
(P. demissa), Choke Cherry (P. virginiana), Hawthorn, two species 
(Orataegus rivularis and C. douglasii), Service Berry (Amelanchier 
alnifalia), Silver Berry ( Elæagnus argentea), Buffalo Berry (Shepherdia 
argentea), Black Birch (Betula occidentalis), Black Alder (Alnus in- 
cana viresceus), Sage Brush (Artemisia tridentata). 
The last species is sometimes so large that “a man on horseback may 
ride erect underneath the branches.” 
We notice a curious slip by which Actinella glabra Nutt. is listed 
among the new species, although it was published as a new species fifty- 
five years ago in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 
and a year or so later appeared under Nuttall’s name in Torrey and 
Gray s Flora of North America, II, p. 382.—Cuaruegs E. Bessey. 
The Lichens of Chicago.—Bulletin No. 1, of the Geological and 
Natural History Survey of the Chicago Academy of Sciences is devoted 
to an enumeration of the lichens of Senda ae visisit, WN E er 
W. Catkins. One hundred and twenty-five 
very briefly characterized. The paper is sapped by a useful but 
incomplete Bibliography of North American Lichenology.—CHARLES 
E. Bessey. 
Eastwood’s Plants of Southeastern Utah.—In the Proceed- 
ings of the California Academy of Sciences (2d series, vol. VI) Miss 
Alice Eastwood enumerates 162 species collected in 1895 in the valley 
‚and on the plateaus of the San Juan River in southeastern Utah, a 
desert region with curious oases about springs and along cafions. 
Several new species are enumerated, three of which are figured in the 
plates which accompany the report.—CHARLES E. Brssry.. 
