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circles, is well figured in the Botanical Magazine for January. Sir 
Joseph Hooker calls attention to the fact that it was figured by 
Rumphius as early as 1690. 
A portrait of George Bentham, accompanied by a biographical 
memoir by Sir Joseph Hooker, his collaborator on the great “Genera 
Plantarum,” appears in the concluding number of Vol. XII of the 
Annals of Botany. 
Professor Sargent contributes to the Botanical Gazette for February 
an article on new or little-known North American trees, in which the 
Thrinax-like palms of Florida are revised,—the new genus Cocco- 
thrinax being proposed, — and a new elm related to Ulmus racemosa 
is described under the name U. serotina. 
Recent issues of the Deutsche Botanische Monatsschrift contain a 
series of articles, by W. N. Suksdorf, entitled “Washingtonische 
Pflanzen,” and descriptive of a considerable number of species and 
varieties from our northwest coast, which are believed to be as yet 
undescribed or unnamed. 
A notion of the extent to which scientific as well as military and 
commercial activity is penetrating Africa may be obtained from an 
examination of the issue of the Botanische Jahrbiicher of January 31, 
the greater part of which is devoted to a continuation of the “ Beiträge 
zur Flora von Afrika,” by Dr. Engler and his associates. 
Vanilla culture, as practiced in the Seychelles, is described by 
S. J. Galbraith in Bulletin No. 2r of the United States Department 
of Agriculture, Division of Botany. 
The acaulescent blue violets of the vicinity of Ottawa are described 
and figured by James M. Macoun in Zhe Ottawa Naturalist for 
January. 
Bulletin No. 48 of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, which’ 
is devoted to grapes, contains a half-tone reproduction of a photo- 
graph by Professor Munson, showing the seeds of North American 
grapes. 
Plants yielding Myrrh and Bdellium are monographically treated 
in January numbers of the Pharmaceutical Journal by E. M. Holmes, 
of the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. 
Robert Smith contributes a short article “on the study of plant 
associations” to Natural Science for February, illustrating his remarks 
