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and Durand, ferns of the Amazon region by Christ, Brazilian fungi 
by the Sydows, the vegetation of Cape Magoary, etc., by Huber, 
an alpine variety of Ste//aria nemorum by Beauverd, and a valerian 
new to the flora of Savoy by Briquet. 
Papers of botanical interest in the Proceedings of the American 
Pharmaceutical Association for 1900 are the following: Merrill and 
Schlotterbeck, alkaloids of Bocconia cordata ; Gordin, alkaloids of Cea- 
nothus Americanus; Kebler, notes on jalap roots; Kraemer, assay of 
drugs by the use of living plants; Schneider, pharmaceutical bacteriol- 
ogy; Stevens, wild-cherry bark and its preparations; Dohme and 
Engelhardt, Atropa Belladonna or Scopola Carniolica; Schlotterbeck, 
Adlumia cirrhosa. 
Under the title of Zorreya the Torrey Botanical Club of New York 
City has begun the issuance of a monthly journal of botanical notes 
and news, under the editorial management of Dr. M. A. Howe. 
The self-pruning of certain trees, a subject apparently first dis- 
cussed in this country by Trelease, in the Report of the Wisconsin 
Experiment Station for 1884, and again by Bessey in Science for 1900, 
receives interesting treatment by Schaffner and Tyler in the Ohio 
Naturalist for January. Figures are given illustrating the process 
in Populus and Salix. 
The Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for December contains 
Systematic papers on fungi by Peck, lichens by Zahlbruckner, mosses 
by Mrs. Britton, fernworts by Maxon, and Rocky Mountain phanero- 
gams by Rydberg. 
Part XXIII of fittonia is largely devoted to Composite and Cru- 
ciferæ, with a decade of new Gentianacez, a discussion of some 
neglected generic types, and a batch of corrections in nomenclature. 
Thalictrum confine is the name proposed in Rhodora for December, 
by Mr. Fernald, for a plant of Ontario and Maine, which in habit 
Suggests smallleaved Z Jendleri, and he shows that T. occidentale 
extends eastwards so as to reach New Brunswick and Maine. 
The Systematic value of tendrils in Lathyrus is discussed by 
ritsch in the Oesterreichische Botanische Zeitschrift for November. 
Dr. 
Pan Robinson, in Riodora for December, discusses the nomen- 
ure 
9f Agrimonia in New England. 
a g pt Contributes an article on the anatomy and morphology 
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genia bulbosa to the American Journal of Science for January. 
