No. 438-] 



NOTES A AD LITERATURE. 



"Field Notes on Rhododendron catawbiense " ; Earle, "Key to the 



New Species of Selaginella in the Southern Flora " ; Lloyd, - Va< a- 



Harvard Expedition to Nachvak, Labrador "; Ind Hazen. "The 

 Habitat of the Slender Cliff Brake." 



The Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for November contains 



Gymnogramme of the Synopsis Filicum "; Knowlton, "Notes on the 

 Fossil Fruits and Lignites of Brandon, Vt." ; Piper, " New and Note- 

 worthy northwestern Plants" ; and Salmon, Supplementary Notes on 

 the Erysiphaceae." 



Volume X of the Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club, issued in 

 November, is devoted to a history of pre-Clusian botany in its relation 

 to Aster, by Burgess. 



In University Studies (of the University of Nebraska) for Decem- 

 ber, Dr. Clements analyzes the use of Greek and Latin in biological 

 nomenclature, lays clown a series of rules, and gives a very large 

 number of correctly formed generic names which he proposes to 

 substitute for a like number of incorrectly formed names now in use. 



The proper terminology of groups, in botany, is the subject of a 

 short but incisive note by Professor Underwood in Science of No- 

 printed as No. 7 of the current volume of botanical Publications of 

 the Field Columbian Museum. 



In the Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano for October, is concluded 

 a critical study of the Italian species of Atriplex. 



No. 17 of Dr. Holm's Studies in the Cyperaceae, in the American 



tolmiei. ^ 



Curtis 's Botanical Magazine for November contains a figure of a 

 curious aquatic Amaryllid, Crinum natans, of Africa. 



Out West, for December, contains an illustrated article on Pirns 

 torreyana, by Helen L. Jones. 



A paper by Minnie Reed, on "Two New Ascomycetous Fungi 

 Parasitic on Marine Alga;," is issued under date of November 20, as 

 a brochure of the first botanical volume of the University of California 



