No. 429.] NOTES AND LITERATURE. 765 
In the Botanical Gazette for April, DoNNELLIA C. B. Clarke is 
proposed for the reception of Calisia grandiflora Donnell Smith. 
The new genus constitutes one of the many segregates of Trade- 
scantia. 
An interesting account of the harvesting, curing, and cleaning of 
the seed of oa pratensis, the standard lawn grass of the United ` 
States, forms Buletin No. 19 of the Bureau of Plant Industry of 
the Department of Agriculture, by Pieters and Brown. 
E. D. Merrill publishes some notes on Sporobolus in Rodora for 
March 
A study of the Zamias of Florida, by Wieland, is published in ZZe 
American Journal of Science for May. 
The North American genera of Aspidiez are discussed by Under- 
wood in the Budletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for March. A key 
is given to the genera. 
The evergreen ferns of New England are considered by Daven- 
port in Ržodora for March. 
In The Fern Bulletin for April Mr. Maxon proposes the restora- 
tion of Liebman’s name Asplenium resiliens for what is commonly 
known as A. parvulum. 
In an article on * The Logfern” (Dryopteris Cristata Clintoniana), 
Mr. William Palmer gives a key to the cristata and Goldieana groups 
of that genus, in Zhe Fern Bulletin for April. 
The mechanical expulsion of the brood bodies of several species 
of Lycopodium is noted by Lloyd in Zorreya for February. 
Several species of Lycopodium, and the propulsion of the gemmz 
of some species, are considered by Mr. Leavitt in Rhodora for 
March. 
The tenth of Mr. Alvah Eaton’s papers on the genus Equisetum 
in North America, in Zhe Fern Bulletin for April, deals with the 
varieties of Æ. Zitorale. 
A monograph of the Lejeunez of the United States and Canada, 
by Evans, constitutes Vol. VIII, No. 2, of the Memoirs of the Torrey 
Botanical Club. 
Two new western mosses are described and figured by R. S. 
Williams in the February Bulletin of the Torrey Club. 
