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THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. 



XXXVIII. 



most interesting being Cereus gigan/eus. Like earlier fascicles, this 

 is accompanied by leaf and fruit keys and indexes for the entire 

 issue, and a systematic account of the species now distributed. 



An excellent winter key to the genera of woody plants, wild or 

 cultivated, in New York State has been issued by Wiegand and Fox- 

 worthy, of Cornell University. 



A polyglot Code of Botanical Nomenclature, by a committee of 

 the Botanical Club of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, has been separately printed from the May Btflktin 

 of the Torrey Botanical Club. 



The sixth fascicle of Dalla Torre and Harms' Genera Siphono- 



cludes Gentif 



part) to Acanthaceai (ir 



— genera 6492-7927. 



The roses of Pecos, N. M., are discussed by Cockerell in Vol. 56, 

 part I, of the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phil- 

 adelphia. 



5 of fames 



I of May : 



published by Spath 



A paper on Echeveria, by Berger, is published in Gartenflora of 

 April 15. 



Professor Greene contributes a paper on Some Canadian Anten- 

 nanes to The Ottawa Naturalist for May. 



Gaylussacia r 

 Horti Thenensis 



figured in Vol. 4, fascicle 7, of Icones Selectee 



^ broma is recorded for the Tertiary flora of Europe by Laurent 

 m the Comptes Rendus of the French Academy, of April 18. 



Kranzlin's Orchidacearum Genera et Species," which had 

 reached the end of Part I of Volume 2, has been broken ofif. 



Several tropical American orchids are added to the known flora of 

 mrida by Ames in a leaflet of Vol. 17 of the Proceedings of the 

 Bwlogual Society of Washington, issued May 19th. 



An interesting article by Miller on cultivated orchids, well iHus- 

 ra ed, is contamed in Country Life in America for June. 



A preliminary synopsis of the Southern California Cyperacea% by 

 isn, IS in course of publication in the Bulletin of the Southern 

 tahforma Academy of Sciences. 



