NO. 419.] NOTES AND LITERATURE. 945 
Botanical Studies, bearing date July 20, which contains: A prelimi- 
nary list of Minnesota Uredinez, by E. M. Freeman, A new species 
of Alaria, by De Alton Saunders, A preliminary list of Minnesota 
Xylariacee, by F. K. Butters, A contribution to the knowledge of 
the flora of the Red River valley in Minnesota, by W. A. Wheeler, 
Observations on Gigartina exasperata, by H. B. Humphrey, Obser- 
vations on the algz of the St. Paul city water, by M. G. Fanning, 
Notes on some plants of Isle Royale, by W. A. Wheeler, Revegetation 
of Trestle Island, by D. Lange, Violet rusts of North America, by 
J. C. Arthur and E. W. D. Holway, and Observations on the embry- 
ogeny of Nelumbo, by H. L. Lyon. The number is unusually well 
illustrated. 
Of interest to botanists, as well as ornithologists, is a pleasantly 
written account, by Dr. O. Widmann, of a visit to Audubon's birth- 
place, separately printed from Zhe Auk of April. 
Mr. Massee continues his redescriptions of Berkeley's types of 
fungi in No. 243 of the Journal of the Linnean Society. 
Science of July 26 reprints from the London 7Zimes an article on 
the recent report of a committee appointed for the investigation of 
the botanical work carried on at Kew and South Kensington. 
A biographic sketch of the late Prof. T. C. Porter, with portrait, 
appears in the July number of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 
Club. 
The flora of the Palouse region of Washington is the subject of a 
Paper by Piper and Beattie, published in’ May by the Agricultural 
College of that state. It contains descriptions of all of the Sperma- 
tophytes and Pteridophytes known to grow wild within 35 kilo- 
meters of the town of Pullman, and is provided with keys to the 
families, genera, and species. In nomenclature, the Kew and 
Berlin rules have been followed. 
A recent number of the Gardeners’ Chronicle contains a figure, 
Copied in the Revue Horticole of July 16, showing an Abyssinian land- 
Scape characterized by arboreous species of lobelia, which i " 
striking as the yucca, cactus, and other bizarre landscapes of arid 
regions on the American continent. 
Mr. J. Medley Wood's Natal Plants, figuring and describing caes 
of the more interesting constituents of a most interesting flora, has 
reached part 2 of the third volume. 
