506 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vor. XXXV. 
Professor Lamson-Scribner, with the assistance of Mr. Merrill, 
has made an examination of the grasses of Elliott's Sketch of the 
Botany of South Carolina and Georgia, as represented in Elliott's 
herbarium, now in the possession of the College of Charleston, and 
the results constitute Circular 29 of the Division of Agrostology of 
the United States Department of Agriculture. 
The life-history of Schizea pusilla, the smallest of our ferns which 
produces a protonema-like sexual generation, is discussed by Mrs. 
Britton and Miss Taylor in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 
for January, which also contains the description of a new Adian- 
tum of the Capillus-Veneris section, from New Mexico, by Dr. 
Underwood. 
A number of fernwort papers, presented at a meeting of fern 
students held in New York, June 27, 1900, under the auspices of 
the Linnzan Fern Chapter, were issued in pamphlet form by W. 
Clute & Co., of Binghamton, on the 2oth of December. 
Among the Selaginellas of the rupestris group described as new 
by Hieronymus in the December issue of Hedwigia are several from 
the United States. 
An ecological study of the New Jersey strand flora, by Dr. Harsh- 
berger, is reprinted from the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences of Philadelphia for 1900. 
A flora of Lyon County, Iowa, by Professor Shimek, is separately 
printed from Vol. X of the Annual Report of the Geological Survey of 
that state. 
“The Distribution of the Forest Trees of Iowa” is the title of 
a paper by Professor Shimek, reprinted from Vol. VII of the Pro 
ceedings of the lowa Academy of Sciences. 
An interesting forest study of anomalous growths of Abies pecti- 
nata, by Cavara, appears in the first fascicle of the current volume 
of Le Stazioni Sperimentali Agrarie Italiane. 
“The Morphology of the Central Cylinder in the Angiosperms ” 
is the subject of a paper by Dr. E. C. Jeffrey, reprinted from the 
Transactions of the Canadian Institute, illustrated by’ five calotype 
plates from photomicrographs. 
The fall of leaves in Dicotyledons is considered by Tison in 
, current numbers of the Mémoires de la Société Linntenne de Nor- 
mandie, and is illustrated by a large number of anatomical plates. 
