452 IHE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vor. XXXIV. 
The genus: Crategus receives a further accession of eleven new 
species. for the Eastern States in a contribution by W. W. Ashe to 
the Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, published in 
February. . 
The results of an sucer study by Hosen of abrine, the 
highly toxic albuminoid of Abrus precatorius, are published in the 
current volume of Za Cellule. 
Cereus mojavensis, one of our interesting desert cacti, is figured in 
the Botanical Magazine for March. 
A revision of the species of Plantago commonly referred to P. 
Patagonica, by Bek. Morris, appears in the Bulletin of the Torrey 
Botanical Club for March, and apparently contains the results of 
careful study. 
The North-American species of Chatochloa are revised by Scrib- 
ner and Merrill in Bulletin No. 2r of the Division of dens: of 
the United States Department of Agriculture. . 
In a note in the Journal of Botany for February, Dr. Masters 
states that while the Glyftostrobus pendulus of English gardens is 
merely a variety of Zaxodium distichum, there is a true Glyptostrobus, 
which, while in garden specimens that have not yet reached the 
fruiting age cannot be separated from Taxodium, is yet amply dis- 
tinct when fruiting, in its elongated (not peltate), cone-scaled and 
evidently winged seeds. 
A supposed bigeneric hybrid between Cystopteris Jragilis and 
Asplenium Trichomanes is described from the Jura by Parmentier in 
the Bulletin de / Adimi Intérmationaie de Grape Botanique for 
February. ~ 
A catalogue of the flora of Montana and the Yellowstone National 
Park, by Dr. Rydberg, constitutes the first volume of the Memoirs 
of the New York Botanical Garden — a volume of nearly 500 pages, 
issued i in February, 1900. 
An analytical list of the plants of Rovereto i is published by Pro- 
fessor Stefani in Vol. V of the Atti della I. R. Accademia . ,.. degli 
Agiati, and should be of use to visitors to the region of the Adriatic. 
A botanical bibliography of the Argentine Republic is reprinted 
by F. Kurtz from Vol. XVI of the Boletin de la Academia Nacional 
de Ciencias de Córdoba. 
