NOTES AND NEWS. 
Dr. ALBERT SCHNEIDER is studying the ic o of northeastern 
North reopen at the Columbia College herbar 
In Garden and Forest (Nov. 21) Mr. Geo. F. * Zz nson discusses the 
Exoascacez of stone fruits, and Dr. B. D. Halsted describes and figures 
a eee of Cosmos 
r. L. H. Baitey completed some months ago the revision of 
| ee S Field Forest,and Garden Botany, and the book is now in type 
and sey for issue by the American Book Co. 
Dr. D. H. Campsett’s forthcoming work on oe dodger aie will 
be brought out by Macmillan & Co., and will be a book 400 
pages. “Tt will go into the printer’s hands about Chaistias 
Dr. DouGias H. Camppe.t presented before the B. A. A. S. at its 
Oxford meeting a paper on the origin of the sexual organs of the 
Sanaa the substance of which will appear in our next issue. 
THE SECOND CENTURY of Ule’s Bryotheca Brasiliensis is now ready 
for Maribancn by Dr. V. F. Brotherus of Helsi ngfors. The price is 
the same as that "ot the first century ($6), of ie a few sets still 
remain unsold. 
* Proressor C. S$. SarGENT in Garden and Forest es 31) mois 
and figures three hybrid walnut trees growing n They 
seem to be hybrids of Juglans ee * and Jugtane siti, ee are re- 
peas intermediate in chara 
THE SCREW PINES of nesee ok ae described by Mr. A. B. 
Rendic i in Journal of Botany (Nov.). eem to keep to the coast 
line, five species on the west mari two of Cinch are new, and three on 
_ the east coast, all of which are n 
Mr Wiis, in Jour. Linn. Soc. (30: 284-298) discusses 
eid of fertilization in species of Brodiaea, Stanhopea, Pimelea, 
- Cotyledon, Hydrolea, Nemophila, and Ziziphora; pete also cleistogamy 
in Salvia verbenacea. Two plates illustrate the paper 
3 urprising harvest of new spe- 
WESTERN CHINA continues to yield a Aes : J Ae couioues Wis 
ote six new species of Corydalis, a 
f Saxifra; pe 
Natural History. It isa most caduahie aang wes lete 
Sore. oe studied, and quite a pepe of new species bein 
bed. 
ibed (Bulletin Torr. Bot. Club, Sage 
ms 
a new fossil liverwort oe the ib tesgor region 
- questionable whether its relationship 1s with paatog ease Senet 
_ but the new generic name Preissites suggests that the 
is with the latter view. 
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