870 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vor XXXV. 
A second part of Professor Nelson’s “Contributions from the 
Rocky Mountain Herbarium," published in the Botanical Gazette for 
June, deals with various Colorado species and new western Arnicas 
and Eupatoriez. 
Four papers on the botany of the Yukon territory, as exemplified 
in the collections of R. S. Williams and J. B. Tarleton, are published 
in No. 6 of the current second volume of the Buletin of the New York 
Botanical Garden. Á 
The Botanical Seminar of the University of Nebraska has pub- 
lished the results of recent studies on the vegetation of that state. 
A catalogue of the flora of Montreal Island, Canada, is being pub- 
lished in current numbers of the Bulletin de 1’ Académie Internationale 
de Géographie Botanique. 
A systematic list of the plants collected by Schmidt on the 
Danish expedition to Siam in 1889 and 1900 is being published in 
the Botanisk Tidsskrift. 
Pilger’s “ Beitrag zur Flora von Mattogrosso ” is concluded in the 
second Heft of Bd. XXX of Engler’s Botanische Jahrbücher, which, 
like other recent numbers, is also devoted in large part to studies of 
African plants. 
Stanleya pinnatifida is figured in the Gardeners’ Chronicle of June 15. 
Dr. Small reviews the Mimosacez of the southeastern United States 
in the Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden of May 27. 
Rosa Engelmanni is figured in the April fascicle of /cones Selecta 
Horti Thenensis. 
Two species of Epilobium are characterized by Suksdorf in the 
West American Scientist for May. 
An interesting “Study of the Papaw,” Carica Papaya, by F : B. 
Kilmer, has run through several recent numbers of the American 
Journal of Pharmacy. 
The Canada thistle is the subject of a revised issue of Circular 27 
of the Division of Botany of the United States Department of Agricul- 
ture, by Mr. Dewey. 
Several new Canadian gentians are described by Holm in the 
Ottawa Naturalist for July. 
In the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for June, Dr. Small 
proposes the generic name Brayodendron for what has been known 
as Diospyros Texana, and describes several species in the genera 
Quercus, /Esculus, Hypericum, Azalea, and Dendrium. 
