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IS everywhere abundant. This led to the idea that it might have 

 modes of reproduction independent of the Uromyces. Careful 

 search among many sections finally revealed the tip of a branch 

 of mycelium ending in a clavate head. Further sections through 

 portions of the leaves first discolored by the fungas showed this 

 body to be an oogonium and accompanied by an antheridiuni, 

 by the contents of which it appeared to be fertilized. Subse- 

 Quentlv It develoDs into the ^ciduun. N. L. B. 



Index to Recent American Botanical Literature^ 



Arauja {ScJnibertia) graveolens. (Gard. Chron., Iv., 271 ; fig. H^ 



A rtifi< 



A Protection for. — E. .S. Goff. 



(Garden and Forest, i., 339; illustrated.) - 

 Asa Gray and Darivinism, — Lester F. Ward. (Reprinted from 



The Historical American, for Aug., 1888; illustrated with 



portrait of Dr. Gray.) A pleasing resume of the position that 



Dr. Gray occupied in the controversy over the principles of 



organic evolution. 

 Asa Gray. — Memorial of . (Pamph., 8vo., pp. 45.) 



An account of the proceedings of the Adjourned Annual 

 rilceting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, held in 

 Boston, Wednesday, June 13th, 1888, to commemorate the life 

 and services of the great botanist. The addresses of Prof. Joseph 

 Lovenng, Augustus Lowell, Prof. Eliot, Prof. G. L. Goodale, 

 Prof W. G. Farlow and Sereno Watson are printed in full. 

 Aster in a, Dimerosporitim and Meliola. — Synopsis of the North 



Ajuerican Species of — George Martin, (Reprinted from 



Journ. Mycol.) 

 Buzzards Bay. — Jtdy on the Shores of — M. G. Van Rensselaer. 



(Garden and Forest, i.,'327.) A popular account of the most 



conspicuous plants of the region. 

 Desmids — North Carolina. — A Preliminary List of — W. L. 



Poteat (Journ. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc, v., 1-4.) Eighty-one 



species are enumerated. 

 EntomophthorecB of the United States.— The.— C. E. Bessey. 



(Am. Nat., xxii., 643-645.) A reviev^ and synopsis of the 



work of Mr. Roland Thaxter r\^ nuhli^hrd in the Mem. Bost. 



