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BOTANICAL: GAZETTE. 15 
Part Four of volume 173 of the Phil. cere aie of the Royal Society 
of London is devoted to a report by Lawes and Gillert on the botanical results 
of experiments on the sere herbage of permanent iandiges conducted - 
more than twenty years in succession on the same land. It oer aces 235 quart 
pages with many tables, pee is replete with interesting matte 
Mr. Tuos, MEEHAN, who visited the western coast last summer, dissents in 
the current signatures of ‘the Proc. Phila. Acad. from the rene of Mr. Muir, to 
e . Am. 
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once existed, <p apace) accounts for the failure of the Sequoias By eee be- 
yond the “fe ds they have evidently maintained for a Pie term of j 
N Murr fur sai seo seven ee ages of Botanical ‘Notes i he 
‘report of the Suibe of the Revenue-Steam Cora in 1881, just issued fro 
the government printing office. ists are ape the flow pried plants Solinetsil 
‘at various localities on the coasts of Alaska, Siberia and adjace 
Dr. A. L. Ca seg anes his previous paper in the Pop. Sei. "Me (Dee. *82) 
with another (Dec. ’83) on the “Concentric Rings of Trees,” in which he re- 
peats the main statements ‘of the former paper and brings silition al grapes d 
‘to show that the concentric rings of trees are not necessarily annual. This e 
dence pret al presented in tabular form) is based upon actual specimens cut fa 
‘trees of kn 
Specimens furnished by Species. oem Number of Rings. 
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Hon. Robt. W. Furness ick nlebouy 1] 16 
Sie Bu Mt ash BH 
“ “ “ “ 14 main, 
Ky. ite tree dak “eaon ass gs. 
“ce “ “ec “ Bur oak 94 i 
" . e © Black walnut 
ae “ “cs ota Chestn 4 7 
aN ote AR Monit a Peach 8 6 
ME dd ks Chestnut oak u.: 18 . 
rof. J. L. Budd, Iowa 
Agr. College. Spruce (Puget S’d) spec- ,; | 18 at one end, 
imen 12 in. long L S at the eee end. 
Mr. H. P. Child, Kansas Pine 8 
: (16 
City Stock Yards. Soft maple 14 L475 ren 
The hg here presented i is certainly very strong; strong enough at least 
to make us drop the term “annual rin ” and aaa the. more expressive 
and in kas cases ssike truthful one, oa rin 
CURRENT “LITERATUR EB. 
pay to North American Botany. By Asa Gray. Proc. Am. Acad. 19. 
PP. 
As would be expected, the oe part of this contribution is devoted to 
the Composite, sss species being des d and certain genera revised. The fol- 
lowing notes w: ade in looking cheoadl the pages, and while they seem de- 
sultory they Sadteidi somewhat the order of treat 
