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minatum; and A. grandidentatum Nutt. All these forms become va- 
neties of A. barbatum in Sargent’s Silva. This part of the contribu- 
tion is illustrated by ten plates. The second part presents a 
winter synopsis of all North American maples, and with the help of 
three plates not only shows the possibility of determinations in the 
winter condition, but also develops new specific characters. 
Proressor S. C. Mason has published in the Eighth Biennial Re- 
port of the State Board of Agriculture a preliminary report upon the 
variety and distribution of Kansas trees. 
Dr. J. H. Wakker opens a series of reports from the East Java 
Experiment Station‘ consisting of articles extracted from the archives 
of the Java Sugar-Industry, and treating of the diseases of sugar-cane 
and the improvement of cane by use of seed. 
Two PAPERS upon the flora of Wisconsin have been issued in the 
ninth volume of the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy, and 
Separates were distributed in advance of publication of the vol- 
ume. These are “A preliminary paper on the flora of Dane county,” 
by L. S. Cheney and R. H. True, and “A supplementary list of para- 
sitic fungi of Wisconsin,” by J. J. Davis. The first is prefaced by a 
brief account of the climatic and geologic conditions of the range 
covered and accompanied by a topographic map reproduced from the 
sheets of the U.S.G.S. It includes spermaphytes, pteridophytes and 
bryophytes. The second paper is supplementary to Trelease’s list of 
the fungi of Wisconsin prepared in 1882. 
THE SERIES of bulletins from the laboratories of natural history of 
the state University of Iowa has just now reached the close of the sec- 
lume. The current number contains ten papers, six of which 
Seton fo Nicaragua, which seems to have been very successful in 
ait n of material and notes; Professor McBride furnishes 
hikick ac se namely, an account of the Nicaraguan Myxomycetes 
snot strikingly like those of the northern United States, of the 
tad ve Species collected nineteen being identical with those com- 
nly found in eastern Towa, and the six new ones representing 
a continuation of the presentation of the myxomy- 
scription of lowa (nine species, two of them being new), the de- 
new foe) et bysarum from Colorado, and the description of a 
—_0S! cycad (Bennettites) from the Jura-Trias of S. Dakota; and 
erabais saeingen Proefstation ‘‘Oost-Java.’’ Nieuwé Serie. Roy. 8vo. So- 
No. 1, : J : 
atrowroot en thy Foc bladziekten te malang, 7 pp. No. 2, Djamoer oepas 
18e5, 13 pp. 
planten, 6 pp. No. 5, Onze zaadplanten van het jaar 
