Vol. Ill 



JANUARY, L920 



No. l 



ENTRIES i mi 



Botanical Abstracts 



A monthly serial furnishing abstracts and citations of publications in the international 



field of botany in its broadest sense. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY 

 UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 



THE BOARD OF CONTROL OF BOTANICAL ABSTRACTS, INC. 



EDITORIAL BOARD 



Burton E. Livingston, Editor-in-Chief 

 The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 



John Hendley Barnhart, New York Bo- 

 tanical Garden, New York City, Editor 

 for Bibliography, Biography and History. 



Edward VV. Berry, The Johns Hopkins 

 University, Baltimore, Md., Editor for 

 Paleobotany and Evolutionary History. 



J. H. Gourley, New Hampshire Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, Durham, N. K., 

 Editor for Horticulture. 



H. C. Cowles, The University of Chicago, 

 Chicago, 111., Editor for Ecology and 

 Plant Geography. 



B. M. Duggar, Missouri Botanical Garden, 



St. Louis, Mo., Editor for Physiology. 

 Alexander W. Evans, Yale University, 

 New Haven, Conn., Editor for Morphol- 

 ogy and Taxonomy of Bryophytes. 



C. Stuart Gager, Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden, Brooklyn, N. Y., Editor for 

 Botanical Education. 



J. M. Greenman, Missouri Botanical Gar- 

 den. St. Louis, Mo., Editor for Taxon- 

 omy of Vascular Plants. 



Henry Kraemer, University of Michigan, 

 Ann Arbor, Mich., Editor for Pharma- 

 ceutical Botany and Pharmacognosy . 



E. W. Olive, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., Editor for Morphology 

 and Taxonomy of Fungi, Bacteria and 

 Myxomyceles. 



C. V. Pipkr, U. S. Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try, Washington, D. C, Editor for 

 Agronomy. 



Donald Reddick, Cornell University, Itha- 

 ca, N. Y., Editor for Pathology. 



J. R. Schramm, Cornell University, Ithaca, 

 N. Y., Editor for Morphology and Tax- 

 onomy oj Algae. 



George II. Shtjll, Princet'n University, 

 Princeton, N. J., Editor for Genetics. 



E. W. Sinnott, Connecticut Agricultural 

 College, Storrs, Conn., Editor for Mor- 

 phology, Anatomy and Histology of Vas- 

 cular Plaiits. 



J. J. Skinner, U. S. Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, Washington, D. C, Editor for 

 Soil Science. 



Gilbert M. Smith, University of Wisconsin. 

 Madison, Wi<., Editor for Cytolog 



Raphael Zon, U. S. Forest Service, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, Editor for Forest Botany 

 and Forestry. 



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