274 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST... (VoL. XXXIII. 
A provisional enumeration of the species of Cerastium is pub- 
lished by F. N. Williams in the Bulletin de 1’ Herbier Boissier of 
November 15. 
The early botanical views of Prunus domestica are discussed by 
Prof. F. A. Waugh in the Botanical Gazette for December. 
Whipplea Utahensis Watson is made the type of a new genus, 
Fendlerella, by A. A. Heller in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 
Club for December, in which number he also makes of Actinella 
Bigelovii Gray the type of a new genus, Macdougalia. 
The cockle-bur, Xanthium strumarium, which has been introduced 
into Queensland, is stated by F. M. Bailey, in the Queensland Agri- 
cultural Journal for November, to be poisonous to cattle, the effect 
being “ to paralyze the heart, induce torpor, and cause death without 
pain or struggle.” 
The Revue Horticole of December 1 contains good figures of 
several of the forms into which Dodecatheon Meadia has passed in 
cultivation. 
Fritillaria pluriflora of California is well figured in the Botanical 
Magazine for December. 
Under the title Mycological Notes, Mr. C. G. Lloyd, of Cincinnati, 
began in November the issue of occasional bulletins on the fungi in 
his collection. | 
Sydow’s Deutscher Botaniker-Kalender fiir 1899 (Berlin, Borntraeger), 
is a handy little pocketbook which, among other things, tells under 
each day of some botanist who was born or died on that day of 
the month, gives a list of exsiccate of cryptogams, lists of botanic 
gardens and natural history museums of the world and of their prin- 
cipal plant collections, and the now familiar nomenclature rules of 
the Botanic Garden of Berlin. 
The Plant World for December maintains the happy character of 
the journal for short botanical articles of general interest. 
Vol. II of the Annuaire du Conservatoire & du Jardin Botaniques 
de Genève, in addition to a report on the establishment and lists of 
seeds collected, contains an important paper on the geographical 
limitation of species by the late Alphonse de Candolle, and system- 
atic papers by Briquet, Lindau, Hochreutiner, and Casimir de 
Candolle. 
The fourteenth volume of the Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora 
Fennica is entirely botanical: Wainio, Monographia Cladoniarum Uni- 
