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Papaveraceae." The number closes with a facetious review of an 

 entertaining recent publication on California botany. 



As the opening number of Volume VIII of the Contributions from 

 the United States National Herbarium, Dr. Rose publishes a third 

 part of his "Studies of Mexican and Central American Plants," 

 marked by his usual critic al acumen. It is to be hoped that in the 



Contributions from the National Herbarium may not be neglected. 



Part VI of Captain J. D. Smith's " Enumeratio plantarum Guate- 

 malensium necnon Salvadorensium Hondurensium Nicaraguensium 

 Costaricensium," recently issued, consists of 87 octavo pages of 

 herbarium label records of recently collected Central American 

 plants. 



Fascicle 3, completing the 3rd volume, of Urban's Symboke Antil- 

 lancE, issued in May, contains descriptions of miscellaneous genera 

 and species, by Urban, accounts of mosses, by Brotherus, Burmanni- 

 aceae, by Urban, Ficus, by Warburg, Cruciferae, by Schulz, and Sela- 

 ginellae by Hieronymus. 



A most valuable scientific treatise on the Bermudas, with an 

 extensive bibliography, by Professor Verrill, forms the second part 

 of the centennial volume, Volume XI, of the Transactions 0/ the Con- 

 necticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, which is very fully illustrated 



The economic grasses and forage plants of Idaho are the subject 

 of a paper, by Henderson, published as Bulletin No. 38 of the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Idaho. 



Notes on Faulkland Island plants, collected by Vallentin, are con- 

 tained in the Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary 

 and Philosophical Society, vol. XLVII, pt. 3. 



A lecture on the spring flora of Table Mountain, at the Cape of 

 Good Hope, by Engler, is issued as Appendix II to the Notizblatt of 

 the Berlin Botanical Garden, under date of April 1st. 



Volume II, Fascicle 4, of Coste's Flore descriptive et illustree de la 

 France is devoted to a continuation of the Compositae. 



A revision of Chironia. by Schoch, is distributed as no. 19 of the 



