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County, Ohio. Albert A. Wright Pamph. 8vo., pp. 30. 

 Oberlin, 1889). 



Priority — A Question Regarding the Application of the Laxvs of. 



Roscoe Pound. (Am Nat. xxiii. 163). 

 Report of the Conmtissioner of Agriculture, 1888. 



The reports of the botanist and chief of the section of Vege- 

 table Pathology are quite fully illustrated, as usual. The latter 

 IS noticed elsewhere. The former is mostly taken up with an ac- 

 count of the grasses of Montana. Reimaria oligostachya. Pas- 

 palimi vaginaturn, P, distichum, Setaria viridis, Oplismemis seta- 

 nus^ Beckmannia erucceformis, Anthenantia rufa, Amphicarpiim 

 Piirshii, Leersia Virginica, Poa andina and Agropyrum glaticnm 

 are figured, also Plantago Patagonica, Lygodcsmia jttncca and 

 So la man triflornm. 

 Report of the Chief of the Section of Vegetable Pathology for the 



year 1888. B. T. Galloway. (Reprint from the Ann. Kept. 



Dep*t Agric, 1888. Pamph. 8vo. pp. 404, nine plates and 



map, Washington, D. C, 1889). 



Excellent illustrations nre given, many of them colored, of 

 Phytophthora infestans, Macrosporinm Solani, Monilia fructigcna, 

 Fiisarinm Solani, Cladosporium fidvnm, Podosphcera oxycan- 

 tha, Entomosporinm 7naculatian, Cercospora rosmcola, Taphrina 

 Pruni^ Ra'stelia Pirata, Gymnosporanginm macropus, Septospo- 



rinrn Fuchelii 



Glceosp^ 



ipsoi 



Rnsts—Siib-epidermaL H. L. Bolley. (Hot. Gaz. xiv. 139- 144; 

 plate XV). 



Sensitive Stamens in Composite. Byron D. Halsted. (Bot. 



Gaz. xiv. 151, 152). 

 Sobralia hucoxantha. (Bot. Mag. Tab. 7058). 

 Solanum pensile. J. D. H. (Bot Mag. Tab. 7062). 

 Sph(Eralcca Emoryi and Oxybaphns Californica. E. Kegel. 



(Gartenflora, t. 1266)- 

 Spirogyra~A Phase of Conjugation in, C. B. AtwelL (Bot 



Gaz. xiv. 154). 

 Splachnum lutcuvi, L. J. R. Vaizey. (Proc. Camb. Phil. See. 



vi. 302). 



This last contribution of a promising young botanist, recently 



