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THE FIFTH FASCICLE of Engler’s work on the genera and families of 
African plants ® has just appeared, containing Professor Schumann’s presen- 
tation of the Sterculiacee. The genera are 16 in number, and the species 
211, the large genus being Hermannia with 73 species. The appearance of 
these monographs is sumptuous, and the plates are beyond praise.—J. M. C. 
A NOTICE of the appearance of the first fascicle of Haldcsy’s Flora of 
Greece was published in this journal for April last (29: 290. 1900). In that 
notice the occasion for the work and its general character were set forth. 
The second fascicle? has now appeared, and completing Alsinacez continues 
to the beginning of Crassulacee. The sequence is that of Bentham and 
Hooker.—J. M. C. 
THE FIRST REPORT of the Michigan Academy of Science has appeared. 
Its numerous papers indicate a strong and promising organization. The 
botanical contributions, aside from some general papers by Professor Beal, 
are as follows: The flora of Michigan lakes, and Teratological forms of 
Trillium grandifiorum, besides several abstracts, by CHARLES A. DAVIS; 
On saprophytic fungi in the vicinity of the Agricultural College, by B. O. 
Loneyvear.—J. M. C. 
Mr. G. E. Strong, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, has pub- 
lished a list of the plants of Lake Quinsigamond, a lake near Worcester, and 
one of the largest in Massachusetts. The flora is evidently one of great 
interest, and includes some plants which are restricted in central Massachu- 
setts to this lake and its tributaries. The summary shows 88 spermatophytes, 
4 pteridophytes, 15 bryophytes, and 33! thallophytes (319 of which are 
alge), making 450 species in all.—J. M. C 
ALEXANDER W. Evans (Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 2: 287-314. pls. 16-18. 
1900) has just published a paper on the Hepaticae collected in Alaska by me 
_ Harriman expedition. There were collected sixty-three species In a con 4 
tion to be identified, thirty-eight of which are recorded from Alaska for the 
first time. There are known in Alaska at present eighty-two species of 
Hepaticae, sixty-seven of which belong to the Jungermanniales. No repre- 
Sentatives of the Ricciaceae or of the Anthocerotales are as yet definitely 
own from the territory.—J. M. C. 
LEsTerR F. Warp (Amer. Jour, Sci. 10:32 
described a number of new species belonging to 
These cycadean trunks are from the Black hills. 
7-345. pls. 2-4. 1900) has 
his genus Cycadeoidea. 
The described species 
familien und -Gattungen. 
i ikani en 
R, A.: Monographien afrikanischer Pflanz Se ae 
ENGLER, 
V. Sterculiaceze, bearbeitet von K. Schumann. 4to. pp- 14% 
Engelmann. 1900. M 30. 
Conspectus Florae Graecae. 
M8 
Il, pp- 225-576. 
’ Lacsy, E. DE.: Vol. I. fase. II, pp 
Leipzig : Wilhelm Engelmann. 1900. ‘ 
