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index to Recent American Botanical Literature, 
Abies Menziesti—(Garden, xxx., 491.) An account of its intro- 
duction and cultivation in England. 
Absorption of coloring Matter by the living Protoplasm of Vegetable 
Cells —George Lincoln Goodale. (Am. Journ. Sci., xxxii., 
p. 436.) 
Prof. Pfeffer has shown that when living vegetable cells are 
placed in very dilute solutions of certain coal-tar coloring mat- 
ters, the protoplasm becomes distinctly colored, and remains 
tinged for a time. The best results are obtained by placing roots 
with root hairs in pure water with one ten-thousandth of one 
per cent. of any of the “ methyl” colors except blue. 
Agricultural Colleges—How shall Botany be taught in.—A. N. 
Prentiss. (Am. Nat., xx., p. 970; from American Horticul- 
turist.) 
Black Rot (Physalospora Bidwellit, Sacc.\—Botanical Character 
of —F. Lamson Scribner. (Bot. Gazette, xi., pp. 297-302; 
one plate.) 
Botany of California and Parts Adjacent. —Studies ¢ in thes —V. 
Edward Lee Greene. (Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci., ii., pp. 125- 
154; one plate. Reprinted.) 
In this contribution to the botany of western America Mr. 
Greene discusses ‘‘Some Genera which have been confused un- 
der the name rodiza,”’ and proposes an entirely new arrange- 
ment of these Liliacez. He points out that nearly everything 
thus far written on these plants has been based on herbarium 
specimens alone, and shows that in drying, some characters which 
are apparent in the field may become obscured. The present 
paper is the result of five seasons’ field study, during which many 
of the species have been examined as they grow. The genera 
adopted are Brodiga, Smith, with six species; Hookera, Salisb., 
with eight; Z7rzteleca, Dougl., with thirteen, and Bekria, Greene, 
n. gen., with a single species, B. tenuzfolia, Greene. Six of these 
species are new to science. 
The second part of Mr. Greene’s paper is on new or note- 
worthy species, mainly from the islands of Santa Cruz and San 
Miguel. Here are described Helianthemum occidentale; Ceanothus 
arboreus; two Lupines; three new species of the genus Syr- 
