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cusses at some length the forage problem as presented in each of 
the four principal regions recognized by them. 
The grasses and forage plants and the forage conditions of the 
eastern Rocky Mountain region are discussed by Professor Williams 
in Bulletin No. 12 of the Division of Agrostology of the United States 
Department of Agriculture. The paper is illustrated by thirty figures. 
Prometheus, No. 442, contains a readable article by Carus Sterne 
on Kohlenlager and Sumpfwilder, in connection with which should 
be read the paper on a fossil cypress swamp in Maryland, published 
by Arthur Bibbins in the August number of Zhe Plant World, which 
is illustrated by an excellent reproduction of a photograph showing 
the stumps of the ancient forest as exposed at a beach on the 
Chesapeake. 
Recent American papers on the archegoniates are : “ The Gameto- 
phyte of Botrychium virginianum,” by E. C. Jeftrey ;1 «On the Leaf 
and Sporocarp of Pilularia,” by Duncan S. Johnson ;? and “Conditions 
for the Germination of the Spores of Bryophytes and Pteridophytes,” 
by Fred De Forest Heald.’ 
An interesting feature of Zhe Fern Bulletin, a little quarterly pub- 
lished at Binghamton, N. Y., is promised in a series of papers by Mr. 
Alvah A. Eaton on the genus Equisetum with reference to the North 
American species, which it is proposed to illustrate with actual speci- 
mens of each species and variety treated. 
Just’s Botanischer Jahresbericht, which heretofore has been issued 
in rather large fascicles, some three years after the appearance of the 
papers of which it gives abstracts, begins its twenty-fourth year (con- 
taining the literature of 1896) in smaller sections, and, from the 
prompt appearance of the first of these, it is to be hoped that in 
future the useful abstracts which this indispensable handbook con- 
tains may all be available for reference by the end of the second 
year after the original papers have been published. 
The Annals of Scottish Natural History for July announces that 
Miss Anne H. Cruickshank has given £15,000 for the formation and 
maintenance of a botanic garden in Old Aberdeen. The. administra- 
tion is placed in the hands of a board of six trustees, who are to use 
the proceeds of the gift to further botanical teaching and study in 
the University of Aberdeen, while permitting the public to visit the 
garden under suitable regulations. It is understood that Professor 
Trail will-be the director of the garden. 
1 University of Toronto Studies. Biological Series, No. 1, 1898. 
2 Botanical Gazette, July, 1 3 Jbid. 
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