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very seldom learn that any journal has suspended printing, 
and most of them have had such pressure brought upon their 
Space that they have been obliged to increase their number of 
pages. The “ Journal of Botany” is indeed an exception to the 
general rule, having continued about the same annual dimensions 
for a long time. 
The new channels of publication are both German. The Ber- 
lin Botanical Garden began in January to issue its “ Notizblatt des 
Kéniglichen botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin,” pro- 
posing to distribute it at irregular intervals as matter becomes avail- 
able. The first number bears date January 2d, the second June 
5th. They contain much interesting information on species 
grown in the Garden, on additions to the Museum, and numerous 
descriptions of new species in the Herbarium contributed by 
Engler, Urban, Gurke, Schumann and Gilg. 
_ The “Allgemeine botanische Zeitschrift, fiir Systematik, 
Floristik, Pflanzengeographie, etc.,’ was also commenced in Janu- 
ary and is published monthly at Karlsruhe, under the editorship 
of A. Kneucker. It isa general botanical journal, containing be- 
Sides original communications, reviews, notes on literature and on 
; institutions, societies, exsiccatae and explorations. iM. ia 
Compound Leaves in Rubus odoratus. The leaves of this species 
are always described as simple. A student of mine, Mr. Millett 
Thomson, has just shown me, from a plant in his garden, that the 
leaf with its long petiole first falls, leaving a short stub or main peti- 
ole behind, which is itself later deciduous. This, it will be recalled, is 
Something like what happens in the Japanese Ampelopsis, except 
that there the leaf is sessile on a long petiole, which falls after the 
blade itself has separated. Both of these plants then have unifolio- 
late leaves, W. WuitMAN BAILEY. 
Sisymbrium altissimum Linn. in Minnesota. Mr, L. H. Dewey 
has called attention, in a recent number of the BULLETIN, to the 
Occurrence of Sisymbrium altissinum Linn. in the side streets of 
Minneapolis, 
This plant has been previously reported from Minnesota locali- 
ties. The Minneapolis Daily Tribune of September 22, 1894, 
Contains an account of my discovery of this species near Minne- 
