INDEX TO AMERICAN BOTANICAL LITERATURE 
1913-1917 
The aim of this Index is to include all current botanical literature written by 
Americans, published in America, or based upon American material ; the word Amer- 
ica being used in the broadest sense. 
Reviews, and papers that relate exclusively to forestry, agriculture, horticulture, 
manufactured products of vegetable origin, or laboratory methods are not included, an 
made in favor of some paper appearing in an American periodical which is devoted 
wholly to botany. Reprints are not mentioned unless they differ from the original in 
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Barre, H. W. Report of the botanist and plant physiologist, Rep. 
S. Carolina Agr. Exp. Sta. 27: 20-25. 1914; 29: 16-20. 1916. 
Bates, C. G. Forest succession in the central Rocky Mountains. 
Jour. Forest. 15: 587-592. My 1917. 
Berry, E. W. A middle Eocene Goniopteris. Bull. Torrey Club 44: 
331-335. pl. a2. 14 Jl et 
Goniopteris claiborniana sp. n 
Bessey, E. A. Yellow peice: a dangerous weed. Michigan Agr. 
Exp. Sta. Spec. Bull. 80: 1-4. My 1917 
Bessey, E. A. The hormone theory of chromosome actions. 
Rep. Michigan Acad. Sci. 18: 53-58. 1916 
Bessey, E. A. The origin of the Anthophyta. Rep. Michigan Acad. 
Sci. 17: 142-151. pl. 13-15. 1916. 
Bessey, E. A. The sexual cycle in plants. 
Sci. 18: 59-77. f. 1-12. 1916. 
Bigelow, M. A. Popular names of plants. Science II. 46: 16, 17. 
6 Jl 1917. 
Blake, S. F. A new Rudbeckia from Indiana. Rhodora 19: 113-115. 
2 Jl 1917. 
Rudbeckia Deamii sp. n 
Blake, S. F. Veraonisa altissima Nutt. var. taeniotricha, var. nov. 
Rhodora 19: 167, 168. 10S 1917. 
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