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Index to Recent American Botanical Literature. 
Autumnal Changes in Maple Leaves.—W. K. Martin and S. B. 
Thomas. (Bot. Gaz., xii., pp. 78-81; four figures.) 
Boleti of the United States—Notes on the.—Chas. H. Peck. 
(Journ. Mycol., iii., pp. 53-55.) 
Botanical Drugs—A Corrected List of the English Commercial 
Names of. (Supplement to the Pharmaceutical Era, Jan., 
1887.) 
apg Manuals ee Students.—C. E. Bessey. Amer. Nat., 
i, PP. 376-379.) 
This is a very convenient list of the most useful descriptive 
works on all groups of plants with special reference to the needs 
- of American students. Approximate prices are given. 
Botanical Tramp through North Carolina—Gerald McCarthy. 
(Bot. Gaz., xii., pp. 76-78.) 
Development and Distribution of Vegetatian—Sketches of the.— 
. T. J. Burrill. (Bull. Sci. Assoc. Peoria, Ill., 1887, pp. 51, 52.) 
_ Dicentra Canadensis. (Vick’s Ill. Month. Mag., x., p. 152, one 
figure.) 
Erythronium Americanum. (Vick’s Ill. Month. Mag., x., p. 148, 
colored plate.) 
| Flora of Peorta.—J.T. Stewart. (Bull. Sci. Assoc. Peoria, IIl., 
1887, pp. 28-33.) 
A general account of the plants found in the vicinity of Peoria. 
_ Flora of Rhode Island—Some Notes on the.—W. Whitman Bailey. 
(Proc. Newport Nat. Hist. Soc., 1885-’86, pp. 3-13.) 
Forests of North America.—Prof. N.S. Shaler. (Scribner’s Mag- 
azine, May, 1887.) 
Fungal Disease of Colocasia.—J. H. Hart. (Bulletin of Informa- 
tion in regard to Agricultural Matters—I.) 
Attention is called to a disease of C. esculenta and 7 anti- 
quorum which is prevalent in Jamaica. 
History of Garden Vegetables—E. Lewis Sturtevant. (Amer. 
Nat., xxi., pp. 321-333; continued.) 
In this part Dr. Sturtevant gives notes on Australian Spinage, 
