No. 467.] NOTES AND LITERATURE. 855 
A preliminary paper by Johnson, on seed development in the 
Piperales and its bearing on the relationship of the order is pub- 
lished in no. 178 of Zhe Johns Hopkins University Circular. 
An account of the Jamaican species of Lepanthes, by Fawcett and 
Rendle, forms vol. 7, part 1, of the current botanical series of Zrans- 
actions of the Linnean Society of London. 
Teratological flowers of Agave are described by Maige in the Revue 
Generale de Botanique of April 15. 
The North American species of Agrostis are revised by Hitchcock 
in Bulletin no. 68 of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department 
of Agriculture, under date of April 29. 
A facsimile reprint of Cutler's “An Account of some of the Vege- 
table Productions naturally growing in this Part of America," from 
the first volume of Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences, forms no. 7 (reproduction series no. 4) of the Bulletin of the 
Lloyd Library, issued in 1903. 
An account of the vegetation of the “Sotol Country” in Texas, by 
Bray, forms Bulletin no. 60 (scientific series no. 6) of the University 
of Texas. 
An illustrated popular account of desert vegetation is given by 
Sharlot M. Hall in Out West for June. 
Volume g of the * Flore de France” of Rouy, Foucaud, and Camus, 
published as the Annales de 1904 of the Académie de la Rochelle, 
deals with Composite. 
An account of new plants from the islands of Margarita and Coche, 
Venezuela, by Johnston, forming no. 29 of the new series of “ Con- 
tributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University," has 
recently been published as no. 21 of the current volume of Proceed- 
ings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
A paper on the vegetation of Madeira, by Vahl, is contained in 
vol. 36, part 2, of Engler’s Botanische Jahrbücher. 
Vacciniacez and Ericacez (in part) are treated in the recently 
issued vol. 4, sect. 1, parts ı and 2, of the “ Flora Capensis ” edited 
by Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer. 
Papers on Indigofera (by Baker) and Aloé (by Schónland) are 
contained in vol. 1, part 4, of the Records of the Albany Museum, of 
Grahamstown. 
