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A systematic revision of the genus Najas, by A. B. Rendle, con- 
stitutes Vol. V, Part XII, of the current series of botanical Zrans- 
actions of the Linnean Society of London, issued in December. 
A morphological and anatomical study of Pogonia ophioglossoides 
is published by Holm in the American Journal of Science for January. 
Several new grasses from Pringle's Mexican collection of 1899 are 
described by Scribner in Circular No. rọ of the Division of Agro- 
stology of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
Professor von Wettstein contributes a paper on the pistillate 
flower of Ginkgo to the December number of the Oesterreichische 
Botanische Zeitschrift, in which he regards the flower as an axillary 
bud with two transverse carpels. 
Professor Thaxter, whose thorough work in the Laboulbeniacez 
has given him a most enviable reputation, publishes in a recent num- 
ber of the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 
diagnoses of a large number of new species of the typical genus 
Laboulbenia, preliminary to a supplement to his monograph of the 
order. 
The subject of plants injurious to stock, on which considerable 
work has been done by American botanists, is further discussed by 
Mr. Carruthers, the consulting botanist of the Royal Agricultural 
Society of England, in No. 40 of the Journal of that society. A note 
by Dr. Labesse, in Vol. XVIII of the Bulletin of the Société d'études 
scientifiques d'Angers, shows that in France the tubers of Œnanthe 
crocata are a source of considerable danger to stock. 
Der Tropenpflanzer for January contains an interesting illustrated 
article by H. J. Boeken on the ien and preparation of fiber from 
Agave sisalana, in Yucatan. 
The Botanical Magazine of Tokyo for December contains a portrait 
of the late Professor R. Yatabe. Professor Yatabe was trained at 
Cornell University, and was well known to many American students 
a quarter of a century ago, before returning to his native country, 
where he exerted an important influence in the development of the 
botanical work of the great Tokyo University. 
A biographical sketch of H. G. Bloomer, with portrait, is published 
by Jepson in Zrythea for December. 
