
252 THE. AMERICAN. NATURALIST. [Vou. XXXVI. 
In the. number of the. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of 
Sciences issued December 6, Mr. Coville separates from the genus 
Cassiope the species which have been known as C. oxycoccoides, 
C. stelleriana, and. C. hypnoides, proposing for the first the generic 
name Arcterica, and for the last two the generic name Harriman- 
ella, in honor of Mr. E. H. Harriman, of whose Alaskan party 
Mr. Coville was a member. 
In Rhodora for November Walter Deane indicates a form Zuco- 
carpum for Vaccinium pennsylvanicum; a similarly named form for 
V. corymbosum atrococcum and a form chiococcum for V. canadense are 
indicated for New England. 
The inelegant compound inflorescence often produced by the 
Edelweiss under cultivation, and which is then the despair of gar- 
deners, is the subject of an illustrated article by Brunotte in the 
evue Générale de Botanique of October 15. 
The four United States forms of Leontodon are reviewed by 
Fernald in Rhodora for December. 
In Rhodora for December Mr. Ames describes an artificially pro- 
duced hybrid of Lobelia inflata 9 x L. cardinalis 3. 
Euphrasia, as it occurs in North America, is reviewed by Dr. Robin- 
son in Rhodora for November. ` Æ. williamsii, E. randii, E. randii 
Jarlowii, and E. americana canadensis are new names. 
The west-coast Solanums of the group of S. umbel/iferum are 
revised by Parish in No. 5 of the current botanical volume of Zro- 
ceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 
For various species commonly placed in Bartonia or Mentzelia, 
Cockerell proposes the generic name Hesperaster, in Zorreya for 
December. 
Hefte 5 and 6 of Engler’s Das Pflanzenreich, devoted respectively 
to Rafflesiacez and Hydnoracez by Sohns-Laubach, and Symplo- 
cacez by Brand, were issued November E. 
Anatomical studies of certain Australian Podalyriex, by Hühner, 
constitute Heft 3 of the current volume of the Beihefte zum botan- 
A paper by G. N. Collins, on seeds of commercial saltbushes, con- 
stitutes: Bulletin 27 0f the Division of Botany of the. United States 
