682 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vov. XXXIX. 
The new edition of the Prodromus Flore Batave, in course of 
publication by the Nederlandsche Botanische Vereeniging, reaches 
the end of Apetalz in the third part of volume 1, recently issued. 
A second part of de Wildeman's studies of Congo plants has been 
issued from Brussels. 
Vol. 5, part r, of Wood's Natal Plants, dealing with grasses, is 
dated December, 1904. 
“The Luquillo Forest Reserve, Porto Rico," is the title of Bul 
letin no. 54 of the Bureau of Forestry, U. S. Department of Agricul- 
ture, by Gifford. 
A paper by Shimek on the flora of the St. Peter sandstone in 
Winneshiek County, Iowa, is published in vol. 5, no. 4, of the Bul- 
letin from the laboratories of natural history of the State University 
of Iowa. 
A colored plate of Shortia galecifolia appears in Flora and Sylva 
for January. 
A colored plate of Yucca guatemalensis is published in Curzis’s 
Botanical Magazine of F ebruary. . 
An account of Musa textilis, by. Edwards, forms Farmers’ Bulletin 
No. 12 of the Philippine Bureau of Agriculture. | 
A paper on the grasses of Walter's * Flora Caroliniana," by Hitch- 
cock, has been separately printed from the Sixteenth Report of the 
Missouri Botanical Garden. 
Dulichium spathoceum is said by Hartz, in Engler's Botanische 
Jahrbücher of February 28, to occur in Danish interglacial bogs. 
An account of Welwitschia mirabilis, with original photographic 
illustrations taken in its native home, is published by Baum in Die 
Gartenwelt of March 18. ! Au. 
Professor Greene publishes a number of new species of Aragallus 
in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington of January 
20. 
‚An account of the British Hieracia, recently published by W. R. 
Linton, includes 124 species with numerous minor forms. 
Habit and bark photograms of Fraxinus pennsylvanica are pub- 
lished by Rothrock in Forest Leaves for February. 
The 2oth Heft of Engler's “Das Pflanzenreich” consists of a 
treatment of Zingiberacez, by Schumann. 
