852 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. | [Vor. XXXIX. 
orchids cultivated in the United States, its scope being limited to 
this family of plants. The first fascicle, issued on April 8, con- 
tains illustrations, critical notes, and technical descriptions covering 
a wide range of genera in the family and a number of countries. 
The most interesting feature for American botanists is a critical 
paper called * Contributions toward a Monograph of the American 
Species of Spiranthes," to which 33 pages are devoted. 
W. T. 
Notes.— The fourth of Rose's * Studies of Mexican and Central 
American Plants " (Contributions from the U. S. National Herbarium, 
vol. 8, part 4), like its predecessors is an important addition to the 
published information about the plants of the high tableland. The 
author states that none of the many new species it contains have 
been described until all their known Mexican relatives had been 
studied, and in most cases a synopsis of the genus prepared,— a 
procedure that speaks well for the conclusions reached. 
A paper on plants eaten by the ancient Mexicans, by Urbina, has 
been published from the Museo Nacional of Mexico. 
Nuttall's Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory during the 
Year 1819, with Occasional Observations on the Manners of the Aborig- 
ines, published at Philadelphia in 1821, is reprinted as vol. 13 of the 
Early Western Travels being edited by Dr. Thwaites of the Wiscon- 
sin Historical Society. 
Under the title * Plant Migration Studies," Professor Bessey has 
distributed from University Studies, vol. 5, no. 1 (University of Ne- 
braska) separates of an analysis of the distribution of Nebraska trees 
and the factors which have influenced it,— with 67 thumb-nail maps 
of the State, referring to as many trees. 
The forest conditions of northern New Hampshire are considered 
by Chittenden in Bulletin no. 55 of the Bureau of Forestry, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. | 
A paper entitled * Additions to the Flora of Subtropical Florida," by 
Small, has recently been issued in the Buletin of the New York 
Botanical Garden. 
A contribution to the flora of the Bahama Islands, by Britton, is 
separately printed from vol. 3, no. 11,0f the Bulletin of the New York 
Botanical Garden. 
