416 THE AMERICAN NATURALLIST. [Vor. XXXV. 
Taraxacum in North America is increased by Professor Greene, in 
Pittonia for January 5, by the description of 7: Chamissonis, T. rupestre, 
T. ovinum, T. lacerum, T. dumetorum, T. mutilum, T. angustifolium, 
and T. ammophilum, all from the Northwest, British Columbia, or 
Alaska. 
Senecio, as it occurs in New England, is revised by Greenman in 
Rhodora for January. 
Monarda fistulosa and its allies are passed in critical review by 
Fernald in odora for January. 
Professor Kellerman, in O. S. U. Naturalist, No. 2, gives an 
interesting plate of variations in the foliage of Smilax glauca. 
Professor Scribner and his assistants publish a series of studies 
on American grasses as Bulletin 24 of the Division of Agrostology 
of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
The specific or hybrid character of Asplenium ebenoides is discussed 
by Mr. Maxon in the Botanical Gazette for December, and, unlike 
Professor Underwood, he considers the suggestion of hybridity as 
too patent to be ignored, though he admits the absence of positive 
proof of it. 
A remarkably lobed form of Asplenium ebeneum is described by. 
Mr. Davenport in Rhodora for January, under the varietal name 
Hortonz. 
Weinzirl, in the Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History 
for December 28, publishes an account of the air bacteria of the ari 
region of New Mexico, which leads him to the conclusion that the 
rather few species found differ from those yet described from other 
. regions. 
A compilation of the North American Phyllostictas, with descrip- 
tions of the species published up to August, 190o, by J. B. Ellis and 
B. M. Everhart, has recently been distributed by the authors, and 
bears the imprint of G. E. Smith, Vineland, N. J. 
A paper on a spot disease of the violet, due to Alternaria Viole, 
by R. H. Dorsett, forms Buletin 23 of the Division of Vegetable 
Physiology and Pathology of the United States Department of 
Agriculture. 
No. 5 of Mr. C. G. Lloyd's Mycological Notes is largely concerned 
with Collybia, as represented about Cincinnati. 
