82 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST.  [Vou. XXXIII. 
Bambusee of British India, or, to make a long story short, the other 
members of this remarkable series. Like its predecessors, the eighth 
volume is well printed, and in a portion of the edition certain parts 
of each plate are colored so as to represent the natural tints of the 
flowers. . T. 
Dr. J. W. Harshberger, who made an incursion into Mexico in 
1896, has recently published a paper entitled “ Botanical Observations 
on the Mexican Flora, especially on the Flora of the Valley of Mexico,” 1 
in which he gives an annotated list of the plants found in the latter 
region, prefaced by a short diary and a topographic account of the 
district. Additional lists are also given for Orizaba and Cordoba. 
Unfortunately for ordinary use, the catalogue is broken up into a 
number of separate lists, classified according to habitat, instead of 
being consolidated into a single enumeration with the ecological infor- 
mation arranged under the several species. T. 
Botanical Notes. — Afios Priceana is the name given by Dr. Rob- 
inson, in the Botanical Gazette for June, to a very interesting plant 
from Kentucky, discovered by Miss Sadie F. Price, who appears to 
be making a thorough study of the flora about Bowling Green. 
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine for October contains a plate of Ame- 
lanchier Canadensis var. oblongifolia, which is sometimes treated by 
botanists as a distinct species. 
The Nepenthes of Australia are discussed by F. M. Bailey in the 
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society for October. Five cuts, 
illustrating the leaves of as many species, are given. 
A fifth contribution to the knowledge of Melocacti, by the late 
Professor Suringar, appears in Vol. vi of the Vers/agen of the Royal 
Academy of Sciences at Amsterdam. 
Opuntia Galapageia is well figured in its natural surroundings in 
the Gardeners’ Chronicle of October 8, in connection with a short 
note on the cacti of the Galapagos Islands, by Mr. Hemsley. 
“The Date Palm” is the subject of Bulletin No. 29 of the 
Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station, by Professor Toumey, who 
concludes that southern Arizona has the requisite climate and soil 
conditions necessary for a profitable cultivation of this tree for the 
apres onic of fruit on a commercial scale. 
1 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, August 1898. 
