a 
Statement Regarding Publications from the 
University Botanical Department. 
By Pror. J. M. MACFARLANE. 
The contributions from the Botanical Laboratory of the 
University have hitherto been mainly devoted to publication 
of morphological and physiological papers by various of the 
workers. With the steady growth of the Botanical Garden, 
the Herbarium and the Library, facilities have been secured 
for successful prosecution of all lines of botanical study. 
In order to utilize these to the utmost the Professor of 
Botany has arranged for the preparation of a series of 
monographs dealing with special plant groups. These will 
be published either in the “Contributions from the Botanical 
Laboratory“ or by other recognized means of publication, 
and will permit the continuation of the valuable exchanges 
that have been already established. 
Each monograph will deal fully with the history, mor- 
phology, physiology, taxonomy and ecological distribution 
of the species reviewed, and will be copiously illustrated by 
black and white, also by colored drawings. The subjoined 
are now in preparation: 
(1) “Water Lilies—A Monograph of the Genus Nym- 
phaea.” By Henry S. Conard, Ph. D., late Harrison Fellow 
in Botany. 
(2) “A Monograph of the Order Ascidiaceae, including 
the Sarracenieae and Nepentheae.” By J. M. Macfarlane, 
D. Sc., Professor of Botany in the University. 
(3) “The Genus Pentstemon—A Monograph of the 
Species.”” By Louis Krautter, B. S., Assistant in Botany. 
The first of these will shortly be published by the Carnegie 
Institution, and has been prepared during the past five years 
under the following conditions: Henry S. Conard, M. A., 
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