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Notes. — Mr. Gandoger has turned his discriminating eye on the 
North American representatives of Astragalus and Oxytropis, and 
in the number of the Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France of 
January 5 he adds a considerable number to their named species, 
varieties, and forms. 
A Rhododendron related to Æ. punctatum, and from the Savannah 
River, Ga., is described under the name Æ. cuthdertii, by Dr. Small 
in Zorreya for January. 
In Zorreya for January Mr. Howe extends the range of Arceutho- 
bium pusillum to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. 
Three palms (Ptychosperma elegans, Archontophenix cunninghami, 
and A. Alexandre), commonly cultivated under the name Seaforthia 
elegans, are disentangled in the Gardeners’ Chronicle of January 11, 
by Dammer, who illustrates the first and last named by reproductions 
of photographs taken in the Buitenzorg garden. 
The species of Porphyra of the Pacific coast of North America are 
revised by Hus in Vol. II, No. 6, of the botanical section of Proceed- 
ings of the California Academy of Sciences, issued January 4. 
Professor Peck's * Report of the State Botanist" for 1900, sepa- 
rately printed from the 54th Report of the New York State Museum, 
contains plates illustrating a large number of edible agarics. 
Bulletin No. 3 of the Lloyd Library is the first number of a 
mycological series, and deals with the genera of Gastromycetes. 
Mr. C. G. Lloyd is the author. Forty-nine figures, mostly half tones, 
are used in illustration. y 
Miss Vail gives a readable history of Van der Donck and his sev- 
enteenth century New Amsterdam garden, in the Journal of the New 
York Botanical Garden for December. 
In ZZodora for December, Miss Day concludes her annotated list 
of the herbaria of New England. 
A short article on Lapham, whose herbarium is selene at the 
University of Wisconsin, is contributed by x daughter to T he Wis- 
consin Archeologist for January. 
The Journal of Botany for December contains a good xerit of 
]. G. Baker. 
In a neatly gotten-up but rather crudely illustrated. booklet pub- 
lished by William Briggs of Toronto, and entitled Sylvan Ontario, 
Principal Muldrew of the Gravenhurst high school gives leaf keys to 
