104 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. | [Vor. XXXIX. 
A further study of the “popping” of Indian corn, by Professor 
Storer, is contained in Vol. 3, Part 4 of the Buletin of the Bussey 
Institution. 
Heckel publishes‘a paper on Solanum commersoni and its variations 
as bearing on the origin of the cultivated potato in the Revue Hort- 
cole of Marseilles for November. 
The banana in Hawaii forms the subject of Bulletin No. 7 of the 
Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station, by Higgins. 
Bulletin No. 88 of the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, is devoted to the chemical composition of apples and 
cider. 
A paper on California olive oil, by Shaw, forms Bulletin No. 158 
of the Agricultural Experiment Station of that State. 
Some nature-photograms of cross-sections of wood are published 
by Russell in the Gardeners’ Chronicle of November 26. 
An ecological study of Brush Lake, by Schaffner, Jennings, and 
Tyler, forms Vol. 4, Part 4, of the Proceedings of the Ohio State 
Academy of Science. 
A “Pugillus Cryptogamarum Canadensium,” by Cufino, is pub- 
lished in Malpighia, Vol. 18, Fascicle 10-12. 
Under the title “ Bouquet de Fleurs de Chine,” Léveillé publishes 
a number of new Chinese species in Vol. 39, Fascicle 4, of the Bule- 
tin de la Société d’Agriculture, Sciences et Arts de la Sarthe. 
A second paper on new or noteworthy Philippine plants, by Mer- > 
rill, forms [Buletin] No. r7 of the Bureau of Government Labora- 
tories of the islands, dated October 1, 1904. 
Part 10 of Koorders and Valeton’s “ Additamenta ad Cognitionem 
Flore arborex Javanice” forms No. 68 of the Mededeelingen nit 
's Lands Plantentuin. 
The flora of western Australia is receiving important treatment 
by Diels and Pritzel in current numbers of Engler's Botanische 
Jahrbücher. 
Vol. 4 of the “ Flora of Tropical Africa,” edited by Sir William T. 
Thiselton-Dyer, has recently been completed. 
Several additional species of Eschscholtzia are described by Fedde 
in No. 35 of the WVotizblatt ef the Berlin Garden. 
