178 Allgemeines. — Anatomie. 



Halsted, B. D., Report of the botanical department of 

 the New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment 

 Station, for the year 1902. (Trenton. 1903.) 



An evident excerpt (pages 377 — 422) from a larger report 

 on either the College or the experiment Station. Among the 

 more interesting contents are an account of experiments in 

 Crossing sweet corn; in selecting corn for prolificness; experi- 

 ments with egg plants; observations upon salsify hybrids; 

 Crossing lima beans, and cucumbers; experiments with Plilox\ 

 an outline of observations on crossed plants in their second 

 generation; experiments with lawn grasses and weeds; notes 

 upon club-root, the mildew of lima beans, asparagus rust, 

 broom-rape upon Coleiis, germination of corn, behavior of 

 mutilated seedlings, fungicides and spraying, fungi as related 

 to weather, rusts and mildew at Wernersville, Pa., and 

 fungous enemies of plants in Nova Scotia. Trelease. 



Underwood, L. M., The department of botany and 

 its relation to the New York Botanical Garden. 

 (Columbia University Quarterly. V. June 1903. p. 278 

 —292. With two plates.) 



Beginning with the Elgin Botanical Garden, the article gives 

 a historical account of the growth of the material equipment of 

 the Botanical Department of Columbia University and 

 the present facilities for studying the science at that Institution. 



Trelease. 



Went, f. A. f. C, Anewbotanical research laboratory 

 in the tropics. (Botanical Gazette. XXXV. June 1903. 



A Short account of the opening of a laboratory at Parama- 

 ribo, Surinam, and of the expenses incident to using it by 

 foreigners. Trelease. 



BOODLE, L. A., Comparative Anatomy of the Hymeno- 

 phyllaceae , Schizaeaceae and Glelcheniaceae. Part IV. 

 Further observations on Schizaea. (Annais of Botany. 

 Vol. XVII. No. 67. 1903. No. 511—537.) 



Part IV of this series of papers deals in particular with 

 the anatomy of the rhizome of Schizaea dlchotoma. The stele 

 consists of a ring of phloem and xylem surrounding a central 

 mass of non-vascular tissue or pith. The ring of phloem and 

 xylem is interrupted by the departure of the leaf-traces, and 

 the external endodermis falls in through the gaps thus formed 

 so as to occasion small „endodermal pockets" projecting down- 

 wards into the stele. There is, however, no internal phloem. 

 A hollow spindle of endodermis is occasionally to be met with 

 in the central tissue of the stele surrounding a group of thin- 

 walled, or of sclerotic cells. These „internal endodermes" are 

 either quite isolated or they are connected with the „endo- 



