604 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. (Vor. XXXV. 
species, /toa Orientalis is published in Hooker’s Zcones Plantarum for 
February. 
A series of lithographic illustrations of Cactacez, under the 
direction of Dr. Schumann, is appearing from the press of J. Neu- 
mann of Neudamm, under the title BZühende Kakteen. The two 
fascicles thus far issued contain rather indifferently colored habit 
sketches of flowering plants, which could be made far more valuable 
by the addition of detail analysis of pulvini and floral structure. 
Mr. Bicknell writes on the nomenclature of Agrimonia in New 
England, in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for February, 
which further contains notes on the insular flora of Mississippi and 
Louisiana by Lloyd and Tracy, The home of Botrychium pumicola 
by Coville, North-American Plantaginacez by Morris, and a revision 
of the North-American species of Heterocladium by Best. Dune 
plant communities are well shown in the plates accompanying the 
article by Professors Lloyd and Tracy. 
Further descriptions of East-American species of Crataegus, by 
W. W. Ashe, are separately printed from the Journal of The Elisha 
Mitchell Scientific Society, under date of December 20. 
Cotyledon purpusii, of California, is figured on plate 7713 of 
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. 
A paper on the sunflower, Helianthus annuus, by Professor Wiley, 
constitutes Bulletin 60 of the Division of Chemistry of the United 
States Department of Agriculture. l 
Forms and hybrids of several species of Chenopodium are dis- 
cussed by Dr. J. Murr, in recent numbers of the Oesterreichische 
Botanische Zeitschrift and Deutsche Botanische Zeitschrift. 
Anatomical studies of Chameærops humilis, Phenix dactylifera, and 
their supposed hybrids for which Naudin proposed the generic name 
Microphænix, by Bargagli Petrucci, published in Vol. XIV of 
Maipighia, are held to demonstrate that the two supposed species of 
Microphcenix are not true hybrids, but merely forms of Chamerops 
humilis. 
No. 15 of Holm’s * Studies in the Cyperacez," in Zhe American 
Journal of Science for March, deals with some species of Carex of the 
group Astrostachye. : 
The plumose Asplenium ebeneum Hortone is the subject of a note 
by its discoverer, in Zhe Plant World for February. 
