No. 465.] NOTES AND LITERATURE. 683 
No. 20 of the Bulletin de U’ Institut Botanique de Buitenzorg con- 
sists of a paper on Javan Zingiberacex, by Valeton. 
An epitome of the British Indian species of Impatiens, by Sir 
Joseph Hooker, is begun in vol. 4, no. 1, of the Records of the Botani- 
cal Survey of India. 
Spegazzini records 140 cacti, of which many are described as 
new, from the Argentine Republic in a paper separately issued from 
vol. 11 of the Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires under the 
title * Cactacearum Platensium Tentamen.” 
A paper on Cephalotus by Hamilton, with other interesting botan- 
ical matter, is contained in vol. 29 of the Proceedings of the Linnean 
Society of New South Wales. 
Some West American red cherries are described by Greene in the 
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington of February 21. 
A paper on the comparative anatomy and phylogeny of Abietinez, 
by Jeffrey, forms vol. 6, no. 1, of the Memoirs of the Boston Society of 
Natural History. 
Dr. Moore’s Philadelphia address on “Applied Botany and its 
Dependence upon Scientific Research” is separately issued from 
Science of March 3. 
Dr. Galloway’s recent report as chief of the Bureau of Plant Indus- 
try shows in a concise way the varied investigations being carried on 
by this branch of the national Department of Agriculture. Sixty- 
one percent of the 490 employees of the Bureau are said to be 
engaged in scientific and related work. 
A popular account of henequen farming in Yucatan is to be found 
in Modern Mexico of February. 
A colored plate of the rose “Madame Norbert Levavasseur,” 
which has been rechristened “Baby Rambler” in this country, is 
published in Gartenflora of January ı. 
A monograph of American varieties of lettuce, by W. W. Tracy, 
Jr., forms Bulletin no. 69 of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
An instructive winter tree-study bulletin, for young people, is con- 
tained in the February-March number of the Cornell Home Nature- 
Study Course. 
