No. 407.] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 909 
A hybrid of Quercus phellos X Q. rubra, cultivated in France, is 
recorded by M. de Vilmorin in the Buletin de la Société botanique de 
France for November last. 
A series of half-tone illustrations of the Californian palm in its 
native home are published in Zhe Land of Sunshine for August and 
September. 
Tsuga canadensis pendula, as cultivated in the grounds of Professor 
Sargent at Brookline, is illustrated in Moers Deutsche Gártner-Zeitung 
of August 18. 
A lecture by Dr. Francis Wyatt, on the influence of science in 
modern beer brewing, is published in the Journal of the Franklin 
{Institute for September. 
