1911] CURRENT LITERATURE 73 
(Arkiv fér Botanik 9:no. 5, pp. 1-50. pl. r. 1910) under the title “Beitrige 
zur flora des Itatiaia” has published 4 new species of flowering plants; the 
same author (zbid. no. 15, pp. 1-37. pls. 1-8. 1910), in cooperation with the 
well known specialists H. Curist, E. HACKEL, and A. CoGntaux, has published 
25 new species and 3 varieties of vascular plants from Parand, southern Brazil. 
The types are mostly in the government museum at Stockholm.—E. L. Exman 
(ibid. no. 4, pp. 1-56. 1910) records the results of a botanical expedition to 
Argentina and includes descriptions of several new species and varieties of 
Malvaceae and Sterculiaceae —A. D. E. Eimer (Leafl. Phil. Bot. 2:6509-7or1. 
IgIQ) in continuation of studies on the flora of the Philippines has described 
10 new species of the Myrsinaceae, 3 new species and a new genus (Whitfordia) 
of the Leguminosae, and 10 new species 2 gi Re to different families of 
flowering plants. J. Gittet and E. PAgue (Ann. Mus. Congo. Botanique 
ér. V. fasc. 1. pp. ix-++120. rgro) in a series of publications by the Belgian 
government on the flora of the Congo have issued recently a very interesting 
contribution entitled “Plantes principales de la région de Kisantu.”’ The 
paper gives the native and scientific names of plants as well as their uses, 
and is illustrated with over twenty photographic illustrations.—E. L. GREENE 
(Leafl. Bot. Obs. & Crit. 2: 105-120. 1910) describes 25 new species of flowering 
plants mostly from western United States and northern Mexico; of these 12 
belong to the genus Morus and are related to M. microphylia Buckley.— 
F. D. Heatp and F. A. Wotr (Mycologia 2:205-211. pl. 3r. 1910) have 
published a new genus (Cyanospora), referred to the Ceratostomaceae; the 
fungus is associated with the whitened areas on the trunk and branches of 
the mountain cedar of western Texas and northern Mexico and is thought to 
be parasitic.—G. G. Hepecock (ibid. 155, 156) records a new polypore (Poly- 
porus amarus), found on living trunks of Libocedrus decurrens; it is said to be 
the cause of “pin-rot”’ or “peckiness” of the heartwood of these trees.— 
A. A. HELLer (Muhlenbergia 6:81, 82. 1910) under the title “The North 
American Lupines II” describes a new species of Lupinus (L. silvicola) from 
California—G. Korpzumi (Journ. Sci. Coll. Univ. Tokyo 27:1-128. pls. 1-3. 
1910) gives a list of plants collected on the Japanese part of the Island . 
Sachalin by Mr. G. Nakanara in 1906. The list comprises some 200 gene 
and about 300 species, many of which have not been recorded hitherto eis 
this region —H. Kyzin (Sv. Bot. Tidsk. 4:146-149. pl. 6. 1910) describes 
and illustrates a new species of Bairachospermum (B. Skottsbergii) from Tierra- 
del-Fuego.—W. A. Murritt (Mycologia 2:248. 1910) has published a new 
species of Ceriomyces (C. jalapensis) from the vicinity of Jalapa, Mexico.— 
Tu. LoESENER (Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandb. §1: 1-36 [179-214]. 1909-1910), 
in collaboration with different specialists, gives an annotated list of plants 
collected in Mexico and Central America by C. and E.SELER. The paper is the 
sixth in the series of Plantae Selerianae and includes descriptions of 11 new 
species and 2 new varieties of flowering plants.—G. E. Osrernout (Muhlen- 
bergia 6:46, 47. 1910) describes a new species of Aulospermum (A. Betheli), a 
