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the Nordiske Forlag of Copenhagen. Dr. Warning contributes the 
historical introduction, and systematic and ecological discussions are 
given of all but the marine algz, which, with a comparison of land 
and sea vegetation and certain economic discussions, is reserved for 
a concluding part. 
The Congo Museum of Brussels has commenced the publication, 
as a series of its Annales, of a systematic enumeration of the Congo 
plants collected in 1895-96 by Dewévre. The descriptions are by 
De Wildeman and Durand. 
Some botanical matter of interest to students of our northern 
vegetation is contained in No. 21 of North American Fauna, referring 
to the natural history of the Queen Charlotte Islands and the Cook 
Inlet region. 
The willows of Alaska are discussed by Coville in the Proceedings 
of the Washington Academy of Sciences, under date of August 23. 
Part VI of Dr. Rydberg’s “ Studies on the Rocky Mountain Flora,” 
in the September Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, contains a 
considerable number of new species, chiefly gamopetalous. 
A second part of Barber's “ Flora der Oberlausitz ” is contained in 
Vol. XXIII of the Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu 
Görlitz. 
Professor Arechavaleta’s flora of Uruguay, in course of publication 
in the Anales del Museo Nacional de Montevideo, has reached the 
group Mimosez. 
A number of papers on the oe flora of Java, by 
Koorders, are contained in Vol. LX of the Natuurkundig Tijdschrift 
voor Nederlandsch- Indie. 
The holly-leaved barberries, constituting the genus Mahonia, are 
revised by Fedde in the opening number of Vol. XXXI of Engler's 
Botanische Jahrbücher, which also contains a monograph of the orchid 
group Disez, by Schlechter. 
The signatures of Vol. IV of Pittonia, issued September 30, con- 
tain descriptions of a number of violets and crucifers, by Professor 
Greene. 
The origin of Liriodendron stipules is discussed by E. W. Berry in 
the Buletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for September. _ 
Hybrid currants are discussed by Janczewski in the July Bulletin 
International de D Académie des Sciences de Cracovie. 
