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tliey fore-shadow what we know to be the condition universally 

 obtaining in the so-called higher plants. W. A. C. 



Some Effecis of a Tropical Storm on Vegetation. During 

 a recent visit to the Gulf coast, I observed some curious effects 

 of the great storm of last October, that I do not remember to 

 have seen noticed elsewhere. At Biloxi, Mississippi, w^as a mag- 

 nificent live oak with a main trunk some five or six feet in thick- 

 ness, standing in an open space a few hundred feet back from 

 the shore. At about six feet from the ground it divided into 

 two enormous branches, in whose wide ramifications the wind 

 plaved with such force that it had wrenched them apart and 

 split the solid trunk down almost to the ground. 



Everywhere along the coast, sometimes extending for more 

 than a quarter of a mile inland, the foliage of the pines and 

 cedars and other plants not belonging to the sea marshes, was 

 browned and scorched as if by fire, on the side next the sea, 

 from the effects of the salt spray that had been blown against 

 them from that direction. E. F. Andrews. 



A l-ey to the Genera of Woody Plants in Winter. Printed 

 by Weigand and Foxworthy. Ithaca, Js^. y., 1906. Pp. 33. 

 25 cents. 



Ill the August (1905) nimiber of the Plant World we 

 noticed the first edition of A Key to the Genera of Woody 

 Plants in Winter. The demand for it has exhausted the first 

 edition, and in preparing a second edition the authors have 

 thoroughly revised the text and increased the size by six pages. 

 ''Two or three more genera have been added, and the portion 

 dealing with the conifers has been considerably expanded by 

 carrying the key to species because such detailed treatment has 

 proved necessary in this case." C. S. Gagek. 



The Council of the jSTew York Academy of Sciences has 

 decided to commemorate in fitting manner the two hundredth 

 anniversary of the birth of the great Swedish naturalist Linnrcus. 



