786 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. . [Vor. XXXV. 
Dr. Robinson’s latest “Contribution from the Gray Herbarium of 
Harvard University,” constituting No. 26 of the current volume 
of Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, includes 
synopses of Melampodium and Nocca (or Lagascea), and a number 
of additions to the Mexican flora, chiefly in the genus Eupatorium. 
An enumeration of the plants known to grow on Mt. Rainier, by 
Piper, is published in Mazama for April. Flowering plants seem to 
disappear above 10,000 feet, at which elevation Smelowskia ovalis 
still occurs, and the timber line is at 6500 feet. 
A considerable part of Agora for June is given to articles on 
Mt. Katahdin and its botany. 
Fascicle 2 of the current volume of the Mémoires de [Institut 
Egyptien is a contribution to the flora of Egypt, by E. Sicken- 
berger. Though the fascicle bears date 1901, the preface is dated 
January 31, 1895. 
Mr. J. M. Macouns’s “ List of the Plants of the Pribilof Islands,” 
with notes on their distribution, has been reprinted from Part IH 
of Jordan’s Fur Seals and Fur-seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean. 
A paper on new spermatophytes from Mexico and Central 
America, by M. L. Fernald, constitutes No. 27 of the current volume 
of Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
A thirteenth selection of new plants from Wyoming, by Aven 
Nelson, is published in the Buletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 
for April. . 
The third of a numbered series of papers which Professor Sargent 
is publishing in the Botanical Gazette under the title “ New or 
Little-known North American Trees,” in the April number of that 
journal, adds a considerable number of species of Crategus for the 
United States, and a new Alaskan Betula, and raises the Californian 
Cupressus Goveniana pygmea to specific rank. 
The forms commonly referred to Ribes rubrum have been passed 
in review by Hedlund in recent numbers of Botaniska Notiser. 
The native plums form the subject of Bulletin No. 87 of the 
Wisconsin Experiment Station, by Professor Goff. 
A revision of thirty-five western and northern Antennarias of the 
plantaginifolia set, by Elias Nelson, has recently been separately 
distributed from the Proceedings of the United States National 
Museum. 
