INDEX TO AMERICAN BOTANICAL LITERATURE 
1916-1917 
The aim of this Index is to include all current botanical literature written by 
ees teats in America, or based upon American material ; the word Amer- 
ica being used in the broadest sense. 
Review is age papers that relate exclusively to seep agriculture, horticulture, 
manufactured products of vegetable origin, or laboratory me s are not included, and 
no attempt is made to index the literature of bacteriology. ie occasional exception is 
made in favor of some paper appearing in an American periodical which is devoted 
wholly to botany. Reprints are not inpemge nee unless they differ from the original in 
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Botanical 
Arny, L. W. Breeding for atropine. Jour. Heredity 8: 164-167. 
f.6. Ap 1917. 
Bailey, L.H. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 6: i-v-+3043- 
3639. pl. ro1—120+f. 3516-4056. 1917. 
Berry, E. W. Contributions to the Mesozoic flora of the Atlantic 
coastal plain, XII—Arkansas. Bull. Laie Club 44: 167-190. 
pl. 7. 16 Ap 1917. 
Dewalquea insigniformis and Menispermites integrifolia, spp. Nov., are described. 
Berry, E. W. A middle Eocene member of the “‘ Sea Drift.’’ Am. 
Jour. Sci. 43: 298-300. f. 1. Ap 1917. 
Berry, E. W. Notes on the history of the willows and poplars. Plant 
World 20: 16-28. f. 1. Ja 1917. 
Bethel, E. Puccinia subnitens and its aecial hosts. Phytopathology 7: 
92-94. Ap 1917. 
Boynton, K.R. Buddleia Davids. Addisonia 2: 9, 10. pl. 45. 31 Mr 
1917. 
Brandegee, T. S. Plantae mexicanae purpusianiae—VIII. Univ. 
Calif, Publ. Bot. 6: 363-375. 23 Mr 1917. 
Includes description of thirty new species. 
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