No.416] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 695 
Dr. Rydberg describes further new Potentillas in the Bulletin of the 
Torrey Botanical Club for March. 
Eupatorium boreale is the name proposed in Rhodora for April by 
Professor Greene for what commonly passes in New England as 
E. ageratoides. 
The genus Teucrium, as it is represented in the eastern United 
States, is passed in review by Bicknell in the Bulletin of the Torrey 
Botanical Club for March. : 
A supposedly new horse gentian is described from the northern 
states by Bicknell, under the name 77iosteum aurantiacum, in Torreya 
for March. 
Miss Eastwood describes some small-flowered Nemophilas from 
the Pacific coast in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for 
arch 
Engler's Botanische Jahrbiicher of March 12 contains a paper by 
Lopriore on the geographical distribution of Amarantacee with 
reference to their relationships. 
Pentstemon heterophyllus is illustrated in the Revue Horticole of 
April 1. 
Ale Lynchii, an artificial hybrid between Ale striata and Gasteria 
verrucosa, is figured in the Gardeners’ Chronicle of March 30. As 
with most bigeneric hybrids, this is a cross between representatives 
of genera which, though logically separable, are capable of treatment 
as sections of a single genus. : 
A number of new or little known grasses are described in Circular 
Wo. 30 of the Division of Agrostology of the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. 
A portrait of Mr. George E. Davenport appears as the frontispiece 
to The Fern Bulletin for April. 
Several American species of Cypripedium are photographically 
illustrated in Die Gartenwelt of March 16, in an article on their 
cultivation. 
Poisoning by the pileate fungi, which has recently been exhaust- 
ively treated by Gillot in a thick volume published by the house of 
P Klincksieck of Paris, is the subject of a number of recent notes 
In the Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes de ? Ain. Of 222 cases 
of Poisoning, the records of which were examined by Gillot, 86 
resulted fatally, and of these 2 were doubtful and the other 84 were 
due to Amanitas or Volvarias. 
