788 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
A revision of forty species of Hydnum, by H. J. Banker, appears 
in the April number of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 
A report on the agricultural resources and capabilities of Hawaii, 
by Professor Stubbs, which constitutes Bulletin No. 95 of the Office 
of Experiment Stations of the United States Department of Agri- 
culture, contains reproductions of a number of excellent photographs 
of tropical plants and fruits. 
The cultivation and manufacture of tea in British India and 
Ceylon is the subject of No. 2 of the current volume of Beihefte zum 
Tropenpflanzer, published in Berlin. 
An illustrated article on breeding new wheats, at the Minnesota 
Experiment Station, is a prominent feature of Zhe World’s Work 
for May. 
The manufacture of sago is illustrated in Der Tropenpflanzer for 
May. 
“The Stock-poisoning Plants of Montana” is the title of an exten- 
sive illustrated paper by Chesnut and Wilcox, published as Bulletin 
No. 26 of the Division of Botany of the United States Department 
of Agriculture. 
The third volume of Meddelanden fraan Stockholms högskolas bota- 
niska institut —an assembled series of papers by Professor Lagerheim 
and his associates — is especially interesting because of its myco- 
logical contents. 
An illustrated catalogue of the plants of the Alpine garden “La 
Linnza," of Bourg-St.-Pierre, has recently been issued by the direc- 
tor, M. Correvon, of Geneva. 
An account of the botanic garden of the Czernowitz University, 
planted in 1877, is contained in the Festschrift of the recently 
celebrated quarter-centennial of the University. 
A short illustrated article on the botanic gardens of Malta is 
published in the Gardener’s Chronicle for May 4. 
The Youth’s Companion, than which no more potent medium could 
be desired, has undertaken to aid in creating a national sentiment 
which shall eventually result in the universal beautifying of the 
grounds of the rural schools of the United States. 
