BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 127° 
Timehri for December last contains a paper on “ The Barbados 
Sugar-cane eee ” by Mr. 4 B. Harrison 
ds t part Ca 2 of the Journal and Proceedings of 
the Royal > Booty ae Wa i Teotiteios igi pe of new 
eim’s Land plan ey Baron von Mueller, and an obituary 
notice, with bibtisera chy of the Rev. J. E. Tenison Woods. 
Tue American Journal of Science for March contains a paper by 
Prof. J. 8. Newberry on “ The Flora of the Great aoe Coal Field, 
Montana,” with a plate figuring several new speci 
A Cuecx-uist of the arborescent flora of the Ctied States will 
ped be a by the Forestry Division of the U. 8. Department 
of Agricultu 
Zoe for aR contains an poe of an arborescent form of 
Athyrium Filia-femina, received in 1888 from Humboldt’s County, 
C rnia, . ‘¢ The best de ae: of — plants has an erect 
than five feet in length, and over two feet in width.” The same 
journal for January publishes a somewhat acrimonious discussion 
between Dr. N. L. Britton and the Editor with reference to a 
review of the former’s “ List of State and Local Floras,” wai 
appeared in that journal. Mr. C. F. Millspaugh enumerates the 
Euphorbiace@ collected in California by Mr. T. 8. Brandegee, and 
describes two new species, Euphorbia Wautsonii and E. biserrata. 
ig’ of C: 
formed, which contain several new species, will be distrib uted as 
soon as = ssible. 
glad to learn that the Official Guide to Kew Gar. dens, 
which ‘ten ‘i some time been out of a te is likely to be re- issued 
€ 
in time for ape visitor es consequent on the 
re-arrangement of the collections have caused the delay, — 
lately formed the subject of a arkacis in the House of Commons. 
w instalment of Prof. Baillon’s Histoire des Plantes has tehaly 
been issued, a en of Asclepiadee, Convolvulacee, 
Polemoniaceea, and Borr 
Tue sak volume (i. eee of the Tamar del R. Istituto 
Botanico de Roma (Milan, 1891) is mainly oceupied by a ‘ Synopsis 
z antaru rum vascularium Montis Pollini,’ by Dr. N. Terracciano. Four 
panic and Poa - nae The other papers are ‘ Fungi aliquot 
Mycologiz Romane addendi,’ by ‘Prof, Saccardo, with one plate; 
‘I fasci midollari delle Cicoriacee,’ by Dr. O. Kruch h, with fifteen 
plates; and a short paper by the = Dr. Pirotta, ‘ Sulla strut- 
tura renee della Keteleria Fortu 
Tae Rey. T. 8. Lea has oublished **An Introduction to the oe 
fiechaaaiae of the Kidderminster Museum, which is at esr ae 
