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. A popular account of Christmas fruits and their sources is pub- 
lished by McFarland in Country Life in America for December. 
Southern evergreens and their commercial utilization are discussed 
by Caldwell in Country Life in America for December. 
Dr. Sherman’s bulletin on Gutta Percha and Rubber of the Philip- 
pine Islands is being reprinted in 7%e Far Eastern Review, of Manila, 
beginning with the issue of September. 
According to No. 5 of the current volume of the Bulletin du Jardin 
Impérial Botanique de St. Pétersbourg, the living collections of plants 
at that institution in 1903 numbered 34,887 species and varieties, of 
which 27,516 required the shelter of plant houses. 
An account of Bauhin’s herbarium, with determinations by A. P. 
de Candolle, is published by Casimir de Candolle in Vol. 4, No. 3, of 
the Bulletin de P Herbier Boissier. i 
M. Correvon, of Geneva, has recently issued an account of the 
first Congress of Alpine Gardens, held at the Rochers de Naye in 
August. 
The Journals. — Botanical Gazette, November : — Jeffrey, “A 
Fossil Sequoia from the Sierra Nevada”; Shull, * Place-Constants 
for Aster prenanthoides" ; Robinson, “A New Sheep-poison from 
Mexico" ; Nelson, * Some Western Species of Agropyron 7: MacMil- 
lan, * Note on some British Columbian Dwarf Trees"; Jeffrey and 
Chamberlain, “Celloidin Mechanique" ; and Life, “An Abnormal 
Ambrosia." 
The Bryologist, November : — Fink, “ Further Notes on Clado- 
nias — IV”; Grout, * Hepatics with Hand Lens.” 
Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, October: — Bessey, “ The 
Chimney-shaped Stomata of Holacantha Emoryi” ; Kellicott, “The 
Daily Periodicity of Cell-division and of Elongation in the Root of 
Allium”; Emerson, “ Relationship of Macrophoma and Diplodia ” ; 
Rydberg, “Studies on the Rocky Mountain Flora — AIL 
Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, November : — Cushman, | 
* Desmids from Newfoundland”; Horne, “An Anomalous Structure 
on the Leaf of a Bean Seedling”; House, “The Nomenclature of 
Calonyction bona-nox? ; Murrill, “The Polyporacea of North Amer- 
ica —IX"; Britton, “On Pisonia obtusata and its Allies." 
Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, November : — Britton, 
“ Report on Exploration of the Bahamas." 
