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Mr. Holm is doing a very much needed piece of work, and such con- 

 tributions to our knowledge of a very much neglected subject are 

 exceedingly welcome. It is this kind of work which is laying up in 

 store for the future systematist a set of facts that will make it more 

 possible to present a natural classification. 



Die naturlichen Pflanzen- 

 No. 55 contains the beginning of the 



Jamilien have lately appeared. 

 Cruciferae, by Prantl, in which the generic lines in vogue in America 

 are maintained. No. 56 contains Cunoniaceae, by Engler; Pittospora- 

 ceae, by Pax; and Myrothamnaceae, Hamamelidaceae, Bruniaceae and 

 Platanaceae, by Niedenzu. Xos. 57 and 58 contain the conclusion of 

 Cruciferae, by Prantl; Moringaceae, Toyariaceae and Capparidaceae 

 by Pax; Sarraceniaceae and Xepenthaceae by Wunschmann; Drose- 

 raceae by Drude; and Resedaceae by Hellwig. 



A catalogue of the " Flowering plants and higher cryptogams/' 

 l>oth native and introduced, found within about 30 miles of Hanover, 

 N. H., has just been published by Professor Henry G. Jesup, of Dart- 

 mouth College. An outline map is included, and about 60 pages of 

 neat text present the names and habitats of the plants of a very inter- 

 esting botanical region. 



The Trans. Kansas Acad, of Science, vol. xii (1889-90) is just at 

 hand, and contains the following papers of botanical interest: Char- 

 acteristic sand-hill flora (2 pp.), M. A. Carleton; Botanical notes for 

 1889 (> pp.). J- H. Carruth; Methods of collecting, cleaning and 

 mounting diatoms (2 pp.), Gertrude Crotty; Distribution and ravages 

 of the hackberry branch knot (1 p. and 2 plates), Germination of 

 Indian corn after immersion in hot water (2 pp. and 4 pp. of tables), 

 Observations on the nutation of sunflowers, (3 pp. and 40 tables), W. 



A. Kellerman; Xotes on sorghum smuts (2 pp. and 1 plate), Keller- 

 man & Swingle; Evolution in leaves (4 pp. and 1 plate), Mrs. W. A. 

 Kellerman; Radiation of heat from foliage (1 p.), A. G. Mayer; List 

 of plants from Cherokee Co., Texas (2 pp.), Mrs. A. L. Slosson; 

 Periodicity in plants (6 pp.), Additions to the flora of Kan. (14 PP-)> B " 



B. Smyth; The union of Cuscuta glomerata with its host (1 p. and 1 

 figure), W. C. Stevens; First addition to the list of Kansas Peronospora- 



T. WiUard. 



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