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found on leaves of Litsea. — P. A. Dangeard {idem 61-64) has published a 

 Tv^^ ^^n\xs {Rhabdiimi) of Chytridiaceae. — N. L. Brittox (Torreya 3 •23. 

 1903) has described a new species of Eleocharis {^E. Smallit) from Pennsyl- 

 vania. — F. E. Clements (Bull. Tort. Bot. Club 30:83-94. 1903) i^i describ- 

 ing new Ascomycetes from Colorado has published TichosPot^iiim, Psilo- 

 thecimn, Ophiogloea, Scytopesh, and Heteroplegrna as new genera. — C. H. 

 Peck, {idem 95-101) has published a new fungous genus {Miiruiiopsis) 

 related to Mitrula. — A. Hollick (ide?H 102-105) has described a new Mag- 

 nolia and a new Ficus from the Cretaceous of Kansas. — W. W. Rowlee 

 {idem 106-108) has described a new pine (/*. rectirvatd) from the Isle of 

 Pines. — W. A. Murrill {idejn iog-120) in his second paper on the Poly- 

 poraceae of North America presents Pyropolyporus, recognizing r8 species, 

 ID of which are new. — C. S. Sargent (/?//^^/^/7? 5 : 52-66. 1903) has published 

 13 new species of Crataegus recently recognized in eastern Canada and 

 New England. — B, L, Robinson {Rhodora 5:85-89. 1903) has shown that 

 Echinodorus parviilus is not to be regarded as an Alisma. — M. L. Fernald 

 {idem 90-92) has described a new Bidens {B, Eatoni) from Massachusetts. 

 P. Hennings (Hedwigia Beibl. 42:22-24.^^5.5. 1903) has described a new 

 genus {Ruhlandielld) of Rhizinaceae from Germany. — J. M. C. 



Recent teratological literature. — In the American Florist 19 ; 866, 

 1902, are two excellent figures of torsion in the stem of carnations. — DrUERY 

 (Card. Chron. 32 : 226-228. ^^5. 77-75. 1902) records a cristate variety of 

 Pteris aquilina growing spontaneously, and illustrates it by two photographs. 

 Floyd (Rhodora 4: 244-245. 1902) notes the discovery of a cristate form 

 of Nephrodiu77Z margiitale, and since the variation seems to be permanent 

 proposes N, marginale forma Davenportii, The fixation of cristation m 

 ferns is well known, — Bower (Ann. Botany 17:278-280. 1903) figures and 

 describes an abnormal specimen of Lycopodiiim rigidum Gmel. in which a 

 sporophyll of slightly greater width than the average subtends two sporangia 

 of slightly unequal size, and calls attention to the rarity of such variations m 

 the Lycopodiaceae. — Raymondand (Rev, Sci. du Limouscin 10 : 370"373'/^' 

 J. 1902) describes and figures syncarpy in the bean {Phaseolus vulgaris^ and 

 discusses at considerable length the question of the terminology which should 

 be employed in such cases. The paper might give the impression of 

 greater value had the author mentioned at least two or three of about fifteen 

 descriptions which have been published of syncarpy in this species, 

 Britcher (Bull. Maine Agric, Exp. Station no. 86. 1902) discusses vari- 

 ation in Trillium grandijlorum Salisb., giving many tables of measure- 

 ments and six plates from photographs of normal and abnormal forms. 

 Under the title ''Petiolate connation in Trifolium pratense'' White describes 

 (Torreya 2 : 183-184. I902) abnormal leaves of T. pralense consisting of five 

 and six leaflets on unusually strong petioles, and concludes that the examples 

 represent cases of connation rather than the production of supernumerary 

 leaflets, — Fasciation in Z///«//i Henryi\% figured and described by HenRY 



