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An interesting paper is that by Rowlee and Hastings in the 
Botanical Gazette for November, on the seeds and seedlings of some 
Amentiferee. 
Septal nectaries, quite common in several of the larger families of 
Monocotyledons, are now noted by Van Tieghem for Cxeorum tricoccum, 
for which it is proposed to create the new combination Chamelea 
pulverulenta(Vent.). (Bull. Muséum a’ Hist. Nat. Paris, 1898: 241). 
Luszula campestris and related species form the subject of a neat 
little brochure, with a good plate, reprinted by Buchenau from the 
Oesterreichische Botanische Zeitschrift of 1898. 
The Cyperacee of British India have been tabulated by C. B. 
Clarke in the Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany, No. 235, with 
reference to their geographical distribution. Eleven areas are rec- 
ognized from this point of view. The paper is thus virtually an 
appendix to the Zora of British India of Sir Joseph Hooker. 
Dr. Elliott Coues, in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences of Philadelphia, 1898, Part II, publishes a critical article on 
the localities for the plants of Lewis and Clark’s herbarium, a list of 
which, apparently rather inaccurate in some respects, was some time 
ago published by Mr. Meehan. 
“« A Few Notes on Canadian Plant-lore,” by Carrie M. Derick, and 
“ A Review of Canadian Botany from 1800 to 1895,” by D. P. Pen- 
hallow, are the titles of Nos. 6 and 7 of the Papers from the Depart- 
ment of Botany of McGill University, reprinted, respectively, from the 
Canadian Record of Science and the Transactions of the Royal Society 
of Canada. 
From its title, the Queensland Agricultural Journal would not be 
turned to by the systematic botanist, but its current issues contain a 
goodly number of descriptions of new species of Australian and Papuan 
plants by F. Manson Bailey, the colonial botanist of Queensland. 
Science, of November 18, contains a preliminary paper on the fauna 
and flora about Coldspring Harbor, L. I., by Professor Davenport, 
and an article by Dr. Mead on an unusually abundant occurrence of 
a species of Peridinium in the waters of Narragansett Bay last 
summer, giving an intense red color and a very disagreeable odor to 
the water, and killing many fish and crustacea. 
The last part of the Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen of the 
Kommission zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung der deutschen 
Meere in Kiel is largely occupied by phycological plankton studies. 
