



ftbe Botanical 0a3ette 



S A&ontbls Journal Bmbractng all Departments of botanical Science 



Edited by John M. Coulter and Charles R. Barnes, with the assistance of other members of the 



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Issued April 17, 1909 



Vol. XLVIl - CONTENTS 



No 



RIBED PLANTS FROM GUATEMALA AND OTHER CENTRAL AMERICAN 

 REPUBLICS. XXXI (with one figure). John Donntll Smith 25 



MFARATIVE HISTOLOGY OF FRUITS AND SEEDS OF CERTAIN SPECIES OF 

 CLCL'KBITACEAE (with fifty-three figures). Kate G. Barber - - - -26 



T « -ATOMY OF ISOETES. Contributions from the Hull Botanical Laboratory 126 



(with plates xix-xxi). Alma G. Stokey 



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W*XEXT LITERATURE 



BOOK REVIEWS 



EVOLUTION OF THE F1LICIKEAN VASCULAR SYSTEM. THE AMERICA* BREEDER*' 



ASSOCIATION 



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