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be distributed immediately. Each title-page will bear date of issue 

 and the number iu the volume of the division to which the paper 

 belongs. The divisions will be formed into volumes, chiefly accord- 

 ing to convenience, and with but incidental inference to time, each 

 volume containing generally about four hundred or five hundred 

 pages. Much attention will be given to illustrations. 



The Editorial Committee on Botany consists of Prof. W. R. Dud- 

 ley, of Stanford University, and Prof. W. A. Setchell, of the 

 University of California. In this division one paper, "Morphological 

 Studies on Naias and Zannichellia, " by Prof. D. H. Campbell, is 

 already in press. The following are in preparation: "Report on a 

 Collection of Plants made in the Southern Siennas of California, in 

 1895-1896," by W. R. Dudley. "The Principal Modifications of the 

 Meristematic Regions in the Larainariaceoe," by W. A. Setchell. 

 "I. — Revision of the North American Species of the Genus Allium. 

 II. — Report on a Collection of Plants from the Boundary between 

 San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties," by Alice Eastwood. 

 "Phychological Memoirs. I. — Some Pacific Coast Ectocarpacese. 

 II. — Eucoeliacese of the Pacific Coast," hj De Alton Saunders. 

 "Studies upon the Origin of the Caryokinetic Spindle," W. J. V, 

 Osterhout. "A Revision of the Genus Eriogonum," by Susie G. 

 Stokes. 



SHORT ARTICLES. 



Mr. Baker's Revision of BRODiyEA. — Mr. J. G. Baker, Keeper 

 of the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, Kew, well known as a 

 special student of the petaloid monocotyledons, is publishing a 

 revision' of the genus Brodisea in accordance with the conception of 

 it^ which Bentham and Hooker outlined in their Genera Plantarum. 

 Triteleia, Calliprora, Hesperoscordum, Hookera, Dichelostemraa^ 

 and Seubertia are therein included in Brodisea, and all of the Millas, 

 except the single Mexican species, upon which that genus was 

 founded. Three parts of his paper have appeared, and, although 



1 "The Genus Brodifcea and Its Allies," by J. G. Baker, F. R. S., F.L. S., 

 etc. Gardeners' CJironide, Ser. Ill, xx, 213, Aug. 22; 238, Aug. 29; and 

 459, Oct. 17, 1896. 



