106 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. (Vor. XXXIX. 
A treatise on the transpiration of plants, by Burgerstein, has 
recently been issued from the press of Gustav Fischer of Jena. 
Bower's St. Louis address, dealing with the relation of the axis to 
the leaf in vascular plants, is printed in Science of October 21. 
Coulter's St. Louis address on the development of morphological 
conceptions is printed in Sczence of November 11th. 
A paper on cytological technique, by Osterhaut, forms Vol. 2, No. . 
11 of the botanical series of University of California Publications. 
The comparative age of the different floristic elements of eastern 
North America is discussed by Harshberger in a separate from the 
August Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 
phia. i 
Westgate gives an account of the reclamation of the Cape Cod 
sand dunes in Bulletin No. 65 of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
Certain plants of the north temperate zone are contrasted with 
their representatives in the high mountains of tropical Africa by 
Engler in the Annals of Botany for October. 
The second section of Volume 4 of the “ Flora Capensis,” covering 
Hydrophyllaceæ to Pedalineæ, has recently been completed, with 
index, under the editorship of the Director of the Kew Gardens. 
An interesting paper on the forest flora of the Jubbulpore district 
of India is published by Hole in Zhe Zndian Forester of November. 
The botanical zones of the Madeiras are discussed by Menezes 
in Vol. 8 of the Annaes de Sciencias Naturaes of Oporto. 
An account of Liguidambar styraciflua is contributed to Nos. 8 
and 9 of the current volume of Anales del Museo Nacional de Mexico, 
by Alcocer. 
De Vries’ Trifolium pratense quinguefolium is discussed by Tam- 
mes in the Botanische Zeitung, Abt. 1, of November 15. 
An account of the group of peaches known as honey-peaches is 
given by Reimer in Bulletin No. 73 of the Florida Agricultural 
Experiment Station. 
An illustrated monograph of the willows of France, with classifica- 
tion of the other European species, by A. and E. G. Camus, has 
been published from the office of the Journal de Botanique, of Paris. 
