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1393. Lantes, Adelaide. Una desecadora para ejemplares de herbario. [A desiccator 

 for botanical specimens.] Revist. Agric. Com. y Trab. 3: 32. 1920. — Describes a box built 

 to dry botanical specimens by the use of some hygroscopic material such as quicklime. — 

 F. M. Blodgett. 



1394. Lee, G. S. Abaca (Manila hemp): the fiber monopoly of the Philippine Islands. 

 Sci. Monthly 11: 159-170. 1920. — The natives of the Philippines use varieties of ferns, palms, 

 battams, and vines for their fibers. But Abaco and Maguey are of notable commercial 

 importance for rope and bag manufacture. Sissal, henequen, kapok and ramie have possi- 

 bilities, but have not been fully developed. — The abaco plant is closely related to the banana 

 and the plantain. The name Manila hemp is very misleading, suggesting as it does Cannabis 

 sativa, while it really comes from Musa textilis. Abaco is the term applied to the plant as well 

 as to the fiber. As many as fourteen varieties of this plant are cultivated. It is most suc- 

 cessfully cultivated in the south two-thirds of the Philippines up to 300 feet above sea-level. 

 — Methods of cultivation, kinds of soil, harvesting, etc., are briefly discussed. — The fiber is 

 extracted from the overlapping leaf-bases. It is used for ropes, hats, matting, etc., and the 

 waste is used in making Manila paper. — L. Pace. 



1395. Smyth, E. Graywood. Cotton insects in Porto Rico. Entomol. News 31: 121-125. 

 1920. — Pink boll worm not reported as yet. Cotton leaf caterpillar often locally serious; 

 control by dusting method too expensive for average grower and destruction of wild food plants 

 of the insect is advised. Chief of these are Urena lobala and Malachra rotundifolia, the for- 

 mer attracting the fire ant Solenopsis gemihala by honey ducts on the underside of the leaf. 

 This weed carries the insect across the gap between cotton crops. Thrips cause scars under- 

 neath the calyx and seem to be concerned with a disease which causes adherence of calxy to 

 boll thus preventing proper bursting. Other insects mentioned, also a fungus Agrostalagmus 

 albus as a natural enemy of the cotton aphis. — O. A. Stevens. 



1396. Weiss, Harry B. Notes on Thymalus fulgidus Er., and its fungus hosts in New 

 Jersey. Entomol. News 31: 1-3. 1920. — Notes on life history of a beetle which breeds in 

 Polyporus betulinus and Daldalea confragosa. Both larvae and adults feed on the fungus 

 and when numerous completely riddle it. — O. A. Stevens. 



1397. Wittrock, Veit Brecher. Anteckningar om nordiska namn pa Stellaria media 

 (L.) Cyr. [Notes on Norse names of Stellaria media (L.) Cyr.] [Swedish.] Acta Horti Ber- 

 giani (Stockholm) 6 2 : 1-40. Map. Posthumous, edited by Rob. E. Fries. 1918. — The 

 author gives an extensive list of names for Stellaria media, used in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, 

 Faeroe Islands, Iceland, Finland and Lapland, also recording the provinces or districts 

 where the different names are used. — P. A. Rydberg. 



