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At the close of the volume are grouped together all the genera 
enumerated in the body of the work, according to the products that 
they yield, thus affording facility for tracing out any series of plants 
regarding which special information may be sought, or which at any 
time may prominently engage the attention of the cultivator, the 
manufacturer, or the artisan. There is also an appendix in which are 
brought together, in index form, the various industrial plants accord- 
ing to their geographic distribution, so as to render it easy to order 
or obtain the plants of such countries as any settlers, colonists or 
others maybe in relation with through commercial or other inter- 
course, 
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As a work of reference, this book will prove invaluable to all who 
are interested in economic botany. 
The Fungi of Norfolk {Eng.) By Chas. B. Plowright, M.R.C.S. 
8vo., pamph., pp. 21. 
Catalogue of the^ Flora of Minnesota, including Us Phienogamous and 
Vascular Cryptogamous Plants, indigenous, naturalized and adven- 
tive. By Warren Upham. 8vo., pp. 193. Minneapolis. 1884. 
The Agricultural Grasses of the United States. By Dr. Geo. Vasey. 
8vo., pp. 144. With 120 plates. Washington. 1884. 
Annual Report of the Public, Gardens and Plantations [of Jamaica], 
for the year ending 30th September, 1S83. By D. Morris, M.A., 
Director. 4to., pamph., pp. 20. Jamaica. 1884. 
First Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the 
University of Wisconsin, for the year 1883. 8vo., pp. 102. 
Madison, Wisconsin, 1884. 
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences— At the November 
meeting of the Botanical Section of the Academy of Sciences of Phila- 
delphia, Mr. F. L. Scribner read a paper entitled " Observations on 
the genus Cin7ia, with description of a new species. A communi- 
cation from Dr. Gray, " On the movements of the androecium in the 
sunflower," was also read and presented for publication. In remarks 
relating to the subjects discussed in Dr. Gray's paper, Mr. Meehan 
said that at about the time of his own investigations on the sunflower 
and discovery of the movements of the stamens, an account of which 
was read at the Philadelphia meeting of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science, Mr. Grant Allen was making similar 
although entirely independent observations on the same plant in 
Europe, with like conclusions. Mr. Allen's observations were pub- 
hshed m "Knowledge," September 5th, 1884. 
Mr. Afartindale remarked upon his recent trip to Roan Mt., North 
Carolina, in company with Dr. A. Gray, Prof. John Ball and others, 
and spoke_ of the interesting botanical features of the mountain. 
There is little probability that the species peculiar to the locality 
will soon be exterminated. Botanists who contemplate visiting this 
mountain will be glad to learn that a railroad leading to the summit 
IS m process of construction. This will make comparatively pleasant 
a journey that is now extremely tedious. 
Mr. Scribner stated that the " Check-list of the North American 
Grasses," compiled by Dr. George Vasey and himself, and announced 
