694 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST.  [Vou. XXXV. 
The first part of the “ Illustrations of the botany of Captain Cook's 
voyage round the world in H.M.S. Zzd4eavour, in 1768-71,” by Banks 
and Solander, with determinations by James Britten, recently issued 
by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, contains one hun- 
dred folio plates representing Australian plants. 
Parts II and III of Mr. F. Manson Bailey's Queensland Flora, pub- 
lished under the authority of the colonial government, have been 
issued and cover the orders Connaracez to Gentianacez, inclusive. 
A new edition of Pond and Clements's Phytogeography of Nebraska 
has been brought out. Only one hundred copies are offered for 
sale, and as the work possesses real and general merit, though its 
purpose is local, the edition is likely to be soon exhausted. 
Dr. Holm publishes a fifth list of additions to the flora of Wash- 
ington, D. C., in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of that city, 
under date of April 2. 
A supplement to Zhe Flora of the Upper Susquehanna and its Trib- 
utaries, by Willard N. Clute, is published by the author at Bingham- 
ton, N. Y., under date of February rs. 
The opening part of Vol. XV of the Zrazsactions of the Linnean 
Society consists of a report on botanical collections from Mount 
Roraima, in British Guiana. 
An article on the determination of the type in composite genera 
and species, by President Jordan, appears in „Science for March 29. 
A paper on the Ranunculacee of Iowa, by T. J. and M. F. L. 
Fitzpatrick, is reprinted from the Zu//etiz of the laboratory of natural 
history of the University of Iowa. 
The germination of Bertholletia excelsa is described in a well-illus- 
trated article by William Watson, of Kew, in the Annals of Botany 
for March. 
A paper dealing with American plants that is likely to be over- 
looked is E. H. L. Krause’s * Nova Synopsis Ruborum Germanic 
et Virginiz," the first part of which was published by the author in 
1899 at Saarlouis. 
In an account of a collection of Crategus from near Montreal, 
made by Mr. Jack, Professor Sargent, in Rhodora for April, describes 
six additional new species. 
