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Fungi from Various Localities — New Species of. J. B. Ellis and 

 B, M. Everhart. (Journ. Mycol, iv., pp. 9, 10). 

 Eight new species of Phyllosticta described. 



Fungi — New Iowa, J. B. Ellis and B. D. Halsted. (Journ. 



Mycol., iv., pp. 7, 8.) 



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Seven new species in the genera Cercospora, Cylindrosporium 



Vermictilaria and Phoma. 



Fungi, — Some exotic, M. C. Cooke. (Grevillea, xvi., pp. 25, 26). 

 Ciicurhitaria Ravenelii ixom Aiken, S. C, Cylindrocolla quer- 

 cina from New Jersey, and Hypocrea Amazonica from Para, are 

 described. 



Guide to the Student in Botany, Edw. S. Burgess, A.M., (Pamph., 



l2mo. pp. 44, 1887). Syllabus of the course in Botany, 



Washington High School, 1887- 1888. 

 Injuries produced by Parasitic Fungi upon their Host-plants. 



A. B. Seymour. (Amer. Nat, xxi., pp. 11 14- 11 17). 

 Jamaica, — Bulletin of the Botanical Department, (No. 4, Nov. 



1887). 



The table of contents contains eight titles, including the Cul- 

 tivation of Coffee and the Grape Vine, Orange Seedlings and 

 Sugar Cane Manures, Cinchona Bark, Coco Nut Palm Disease, 

 Plants in flower or fruit in the Gardens, Notes on some recent 

 Acquisitions and the value of the Cultivation of Timber. 

 Jamesia Americana, (Garden, xxxii., p. 522; one figure). 

 Leaf Prints, — Horace M. Engle. (Bot Gazette, xii., pp. 83-85)- 



We have received from the author a series of impressions of 

 leaves in green ink, similar to those used on plates x, xi, and xii 

 of the Bulletin, the method having been described by him in 

 the Gazette as quoted above. The process seems most success- 

 ful with thin, well pressed specimens of ferns. 

 Life Histories of Plants, — Contributions to the. Thomas Meehan. 

 (Proc. Acad. Nat Sci., Phila., 1887, pp. 323-333; four figs.) 

 Mr. Meehan has discovered that AmphicarpcBa monoica 

 occasionally fruits as well above ground as from its cleistogamic 



flowers, and is eminently fitted for self-fertilization. He has also 

 watched Cephalanthus occidentalis in order to see the opening of 

 the flowers and the extension of the pistil, and found that they 



'•open rapidly soon after dark and never during the day-time 



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