Botany. 67 
Phanerogams . ; š . 368| Odphytes. i , < See 
Pteridophytes . ; > i 26 | Zygophytes . í ‘ . 45 
Bryophytes ‘ < ‘ . 42| Protophytes . è ‘ i a8 
Carpophytes . b: : . 242 
The 227 Dicotyledons are represented by 90 Choripetale, 100 
Gamopetale, and 37 Apetale. Of the 135 Monocotyledons, 47 
are sedges, and 30 grasses. Of the Carpophytes, there are 77 
Hymenomycetes, 39 Uredinex, 36 Lichens, 57 Pyrenomycetes, and 
21 Helvellacee. The Zygophytes are mostly Desmids (31 species) 
and Diatoms (12 species), while 19 of the Protophytes are Slime 
Moulds. 
The specimens upon which the entries are made are all preserved 
in the Herbarium of the Survey, a precaution well worthy of 
general imitation.— Charles E. Bessey. 
BoranicaL News.—Dr. Farlow describes in the September 
Botanical Gazette an Æcidium on R ar, to which he gives 
the name of Æcidium bermudianum. Coulter and Rose continue 
their useful studies of the Umbelliferse in the October and Novem- 
ber numbers of the same journal. Dr. T. F. Allen appears again 
in the pages of the Torrey Bulletin for October with a paper on 
Characeze, accompanied by five plates. Two new Nitelle and one 
Tolypella are described. The November and December numbers 
of the Journal of Mycology are principally filled with Dr. J. W. 
Eckfeldt and M. W. Calkins’ Lichen Flora of Florida, being a 
catalogue of species, with notes, and also notices of new species. 
art 3 of Professor Greene’s Pittonia contains an excellent bio- 
graphical notice of the late Dr. Albert Kellogg, well known for many 
years as a collector and student of the Pacific coast plants. The 
editor, in an article on Echinocystis § Megarrhiza, insists strenu- 
ously that the older name of Mara should be used instead of Me- 
garrhiza, The Californian Manzanitas received the attention of 
Dr. C. C. Parry in a paper read before the California Academy of 
Sciences. They belong to the Uva-Ursi section of the genus Arc- 
tostaphylos, and number twelve species in all. R. P. Bigelow’s 
paper on the Structure of the Frond in Champia parvula, read 
before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, now issued as 
a reprint from the “ Proceedings,” is a careful study of the struc- 
ture of this member of the Floridex. he Development of the 
Ostrich Fern (Onoclea struthiopteris), by D. H. Campbell, being 
the “Walker Prize Essay” for 1886, has been printed in the 
Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History. It is accom- 
panied by four good plates. The Bulletin of the Illinois State 
Laboratory of Natural. History, lately issued, contains an important 
contribution to our knowledge of the Erysiphee, by Professor 
Burrill and F. S. Earle. The Illinois species are carefully 
described, and the synonymy has received close attention. Several 
