504 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [VoL. XXXV. 
present one it is 16,673, plus 91 additions in the appendix, making 
an addition of over 2000 names in two and one half years. 
TRSN 
Notes. — The sixteenth volume of Acta Horti Petropolitani con- 
sists of an enumeration of the plants of the Caucasus collected in 
1890 by Sommier and Levier. It forms a volume of 586 pages, 
illustrated by forty-nine lithographed plates. 
Dr. Greene has begun the issuance of a new publication, P/ante 
Bakeriane, to be devoted to a series of lists of plants collected by 
Mr. Carl F. Baker and his colleagues, and distributed to various 
herbaria on both sides of the Atlantic. Mr. Baker is an enthusiastic, 
expert, and discriminating collector, who has made good specimens, 
and while all botanists may not go so far as Professor Greene is 
likely to in the division of species, those who possess the sets are 
likely to welcome the critical notes on them. 
Judging from the appearance of Nos. 6, 7, and 8 of Zoe as a single 
signature without cover, under the belated date of February 6, the West 
Coast naturalists are not giving to this journal the measure of support 
that may have been hoped for when it was recommenced last year. 
The second part of Vol. X of the Zransactions of the Connecticut 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, lately distributed, contains a paper by 
Evans on the Hawaiian Hepatice of the tribe Jubuloidez, and a 
paper by Sturgis on some type specimens of Myxomycetes in the 
New York State Museum. 
Parts XIII and XIV of the current volume of the Zransactions of 
the Linnean Society, issued in October last, consist respectively of 
supplementary notes on the genus Najas, by A. B. Rendle, and the 
comparative anatomy of certain species of Encephalartos, by W. C. 
Worsdell 
Fascicles 1 and 2 of the second volume of Jcones Selecte Horti 
Thenensis have been distributed. 
Part IV of Dr. Rydberg’s “ Studies or the Rocky Mountain Flora” 
and Part V of Professor Piper’s * New and Noteworthy Northwestern 
Plants," in the Bulletin of the Torrey Club for January, add a large 
number of species supposed to be new to science. 
An important contribution to the pharmacognosy of Strophanthus 
seed, by Perrédes, is printed as No. 15 of'the papers from the Well- 
come Chemical Research Laboratory of London, of which Professor 
Power, formerly of the University of Wisconsin, is director. 
