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similar to those which have appeared annually since 1868. Two decades of 
continuous and uniform labor, of the excellent quality shown by New York’s 
official botanist, is a record of which to be proud. 
Both these reports, like two of the preceding, have the plates in quarto 
form, but they may be once folded and conveniently bound with the text in 
an octavo volume. An innovation is introduced with the last report by hav- 
ing it issued in the series of Bud/etins of the Museum, instead of being part 
of the Annual Refort, as heretofore. . 
Each report contains notes upon a large number of species of flowering 
and cryptogramic plants of the state of New York, in part recorded for the first 
time as occurring within its limits. In the 1897 report twenty-five species of 
fungi are described as new, and six species in the 1898 report. The detailed 
account of edible fungi, with colored illustrations, is continued, twenty-three 
species being added in these reports. In the last report there is also an 
account of the plants on the summit of Mt. Marcy, whose height is 5344 
feet.— J. C. A. 
THE VOLUME of biological lectures given at the Woods Hole Biological 
Laboratory in 1898 contains addresses of zoological interest chiefly. Some 
of the sixteen lectures treat large problems, and therefore deserve the atten- 
tion of botanists, though the treatment is strictly from the zoological standpoint. 
The address by E. B. Wilson on the structure of protoplasm, that by S. 
Watasé on protoplasmic contractility and phosphorescence, and that by T. 
H. Montgomery on various nucleolar structures of the cell may be named as 
of most general interest. The volume should be indexed. 
THE ELEVENTH annual report of the director of the Missouri Botanical 
Garden has been issued." Extracts of the most general interest have already 
been given. The scientific papers include H. von Schrenk’s paper on an 
important disease of cypress timber and a similar disease in the wood of the 
NOTES FOR STUDENTS. 
EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS dealing with plant diseases, not here- 
tofore mentioned in these pages, are as follows: A. P. Anderson (S. ©. “ 
41: 3-14. ¢ figs.) describes “ Rice blast and a new smut on the rice plant, 
™8vo. pp. iv-+ 343, illust. Boston: Ginn & Co. 1899. 
*8vo. pp. 151, Al. 58. 
