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Professor of Botany at the University, Zurich, Switzerland. 
Index to Recent Literature Relating to American Botany. 
Anhalonium Lewiniti. (Monats. Kakteenk i. 93). 
Aristolochia Sipho. (Gard. and For. v. 509; illustrated). 
Aster surculosus. (Gard. and For. v. 520, with figure). 
Botanical Laboratory—The. G.H. Hicks. (The Speculum, xii. 
51). : 
oe and illustration of the Botanical Laboratory of 
Agricultural College, Michigan. 
Botanical Notes from Central Texas. E. N. Plank. (Gard. and 
For. v. 351). 
Quercus Durandii, Q. macrocarpa, Dalea frutescens, Lonicera 
albiflora, Vernonia Lindheimert, Prosopis julifora, Sapindus acu- 
minatus, Ungnadia speciosa, Solanum heterodoxum, Pellea ter- 
nata, Philibertia undulata, Desmodium Wrightit, Galactia heter- 
ophylla, Talinum lineare, Oxalis vespertilionis, Cassia Lind- 
heimeri, C. pumtlio, Mollugo Cerviana, Cissus stans, C. incisa, 
C. Ampelopsis and Rubus trivialis are among many interesting 
plants noted from near Lampasas and Llano. 
Botany. (Ottawa Nat. vi. 113). ute 
Among other interesting notes Asplenium Ruta-muraria is 
reported as occurring in the Province of Ontario, it previously 
not having been known north of Vermont and Michigan. Three 
northwestern plants, Helianthus rigidus, Lepachys columnarts 
and Grindelia squarrosa are also reported as introduced into 
Canada. So is also Euphorbia marginata. 
Brunissure et la Maladie de Californie—La. P. Viala et C. Sau- 
vageau (Journ. de Bot. vi. 378). 
With illustration of Plasmodiophora Vitts, n. sp. 
California Vine Disease—The. Newton B. Pearce. 
Depart. Agric. 1892; illustrated). ae 
The preliminary report of investigations covering a period o 
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