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_ reported only from Isle Royale and Keweenaw county, Mich., the 
extreme northern part of Minnesota, Canada, and Lisbon, N. H. 
The last-named locality is in about the same latitude as Grayling, 
and these are the most Southern stations. G. H. Hicks. 
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, MICH., Aug. 2, 1893. 
Index to Recent Literature Relating to American Botany. 
Acanthorhiza aculeata. (Bot. Mag. t. 7302). F 
Description and illustration of this Mexican palm. 
Adiantum pedatum (Meehan’s Month. iii. 113, with colored illustra- 
tion). 
Anthurium Chamberlaini.. J. D. Hooker (Bot. Mag. t. 7297). 
A superb Aroid, presumably native of Venezuela. 
Asplenium septentrionale—A new Station for. D.C. Eaton (Zoé, 
iv. 185). 
Record of the occurrence of this fern in Lower California. 
Botanical Nomenclature. Katharine Brandegee (Zoé, iv. 182-184). 
Botanical Notes from Texas. E. N. Plank (Gard. and For. vi. 332). 
Notes on the rare Berderis Swaseyi, Buckley, and a short 
biography of Jacob Ferdinand Lindheimer. 
Botany and Forestry. WW. J. Beal (Annual Rep. Sec. State Board 
Agric., State of Michigan, xxxi. reprint, 1893). 
A short history of the Botanical Department and report of the 
exercises of the laying of the corner-stone of the Botanical 
Laboratory. : 
Brasilianischen Nuts-und Heilpflanzen—Die. Theodor Peckolt 
(Pharm. Runds. xi. 181). 
Discusses principally species of the genus Aiaslichin 
Caladium venosum. N.E. Brown (Gardn. Chron. xiv. 86). De- 
scription of two new species from Brazil. oe 
California Yellow Bells. C. R. Orcutt (West. Am. Scientist, viii. 
38). 
With figure of Emmenanthe pendulifera. 
Céll-union in herbaceous Grafting. John S. kl (Bot. Gaz. 
XViii. 285-293; two. plates; reprinted). ; 
