119 



Forests and Woodlands of New Jersey, IV, J. B. Harrison. 



(Garden and Forest, ii. 117, ii 8.) 



An interesting account of the large oaks at Salem and May's 

 Landing and other remarkable trees in Atlantic and Cape May 

 Counties. The article also includes a vigorous protest against 

 the barbarous practice, so often permitted, of sacrificing noble 

 trees in many of our villages in order to obtain perfectly graded 

 streets and mathematically straight sidewalks- It is pleasing to 

 note, in antithesis to this, that in the village of May's Landing 

 street lines have been deflected in order to preserve trees, and 

 the inhabitants find it no hardship to turn a little out of their course 

 m walking along the sidewalks where it has been deemed advis- 

 able that trees should be permitted to remain in the middle of 



the 



same. 



Forest Trees and Shrubs to be Found in Merideny Conn, — A List 

 of the. Chas. H. S. Davis. (Trans. Meriden Sci. Assoc. 

 111. 46-78.) The terms family, species and variety are some- 

 what mixed in this paper; thus, under the caption Aretosta- 

 phylos Uva Ursi we are told that '' there are many other 

 varieties in Meriden belonging to this family [Ericaceae?] 

 which have been identified. Andromeda polifolia, 8lc., Bic'' 

 Why these are not included in the list does not appear. The 

 attempt has been made to make it acceptable to the aver- 

 age reader, rather than a perfect scientific catalogue. 



Fritillaria Kamtschatensis. (Garden, xxxv. 143, illustrated.) 



Fiuigi — North American. A. P. Morgan. (Journ. Cincinnati 

 Soc. Nat. Hist. xi. 141-149, PL III.; also reprinted.) This is 

 the first installment of a series of papers upon the subject, 

 and treats of the genera included under the order Phalloideae. 

 A new species is described and figured, Mntinus Bovinus, 

 found growing in rich soil in cultivated grounds and woods 

 in Ohio. 



Grasses— Notes on. Geo. Vasey. (Bull. No. 8, U. S. Dept. 

 Agric. i6, 17.) 



Grmdclia robusta — Ucber den Anatomischen Ban von. Joseph 

 Beauvais. (Ber. der Deut. Bot. Gesellsch. vi. 403, 404.) 



