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Tlie current issue of the Bulletin de V Academie Internationale {Le 

 Monde des Plantes) contains an annotated sui^plementary Kst of the 

 mosses of Sarthe, France, by M. I. Theriot. It is ilhistrated with a 

 number of detailed figures. This issue also contains a catalogue of the 

 lichens of the same region, by M. E. Monguillon. 



Li the February Forester there is a very valualile article by the 

 late F. F. Hilder, on Phillipine forest products, in which some fifty of 

 the more valuable trees or shrubs are described. This includes the 

 common or native name, the botanical name, the uses and last the prov- 

 inces in which each is found. When properly explored, it will be found 

 that the Philiippnes are a most valuable addition to our country. 



"Notes on Crataegus in the Champlain Valley," is the subject of a 

 valuable article by C. S. Sargent in the March number of Bhodora. 

 According to Professor Sargent, the Champlain Valley is one of the 

 richest regions in the world for forms of this genus. In this paper he 

 enumerates 22 species, 13 of wdiich are described as new to science, 

 which makes more growing in this hmited area than botanists recog- 

 nized a few years ago on the entire continent of North America. 



" The Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society " 

 for 1900 has recently appeared. A lecture which it contains on " The 

 Rusts of Horticultural Plants," by Dr. B. D. Halsted, will be of inter- 

 est to mycologists. Considerable space is given to the asparagus rust 

 (Puccinia Asparagi DC.) which has recently been causing considerable 

 damage in different parts of the country. The paper is illustrated by 

 tAvo plates, showing the fungus and its two natural enemies, Darluca 

 Jjhim and Tuhercidina sp. — C. L. S. 



Bulletin No. 46 of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion consists of a preliminary list of the spennapliyta, or seed-bearing 

 l)lants of the State, compiled by Professors Henry L. Bolley and Law- 

 rence R. Waldron. It is a carefully prepared work, and being the first 

 contribution toward an enumeration of the Dakota fiora, will be w^el- 

 comed by the various local schools and by botanists throughout the 

 country. The list comprises 775 sp'ecies and varieties. As to nomen- 

 clature, the authors have adhered strictly to that of Gray's Manual, 

 disregarding even such corrections as have been made by Dr. Gray's 

 successors at Harvard. The names used in Britton and Brown's Flor;i 

 are, however, inserted as synonyms. 



