382 The Botanical Gazette. [June, 
ARTICLES of taxonomic interest in the Journal of Botany for May 
are as follows: Cape alge, illustrated, by Ethel S. Barton; some new 
Polygalas from Africa, by Dr. R. Chodat; a continuation of Wainio’s 
ing numerous new species; a revision of the species of 
Babington herbarium, by Francois i ; pl 
pose better if translated; another fascicle of the never ending British 
PROFESSOR GEORGE F. ATKINSON has been experimenting upon 
species of Onoclea, and showing “that the sporophylls can be made to 
assume the form and function of the foliar organs by cutting off the 
latter, thus disturbing the nutrition and forcing the vegetation func- 
tion) on the evolution of the vegetative phas the sporophyte,” 
printed in Amer y), a very suggestive discussion; in 
Bower’ 
means of which carbon-assimilation was gradually transferred from the 
gametophyte to the sporophyte. 
THE CURRENT NUMBER of Acta Horti iad one (Vol. XIV. no. 1) 
contains the following papers: The Potentil 
A. Petunnikoy, illustrated by eleven plates, in which a full discussion 
bearing a North American aspect; some new Asiatic Composite, 
among which Senecio predominates, by C. Winkler; and notes con- 
cerning Asiatic plants, by A. Batalin, in which there are several new 
Species and varieties of Pruxus and Lonicera, and a synopsis of the 
species of Dipelta and Incarvillea 
T'HE LATEST STUDIES among North American plants, as recorded in 
Bull. Torr. Bot. Club (A sil ase as follows: a provisional list of the 
: ) nN 
7 9 
mudianum of Amer. authors, and the S. awceps of Watson in mace 
Manual, no old name being available), S. A¢/anticum (a new species), 
