172 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
range of subjects, handled in the characteristically excellent Scandi- 
navian fashion. 
The Ohio Naturalist for November contains the following botanical 
articles: Tyler, * Geophilous Plants of Ohio," II ; Kellerman, * Ohio 
Fungi Exsiccatz," with reprint of original descriptions ; Schaffner, 
“The Maximum Height of Plants," III. 
Notes on the geotropism of fungus stipes, extrusion of the gametes 
of Fucus, and adaptation of Spartina polystachya to environment are 
published by E. B. Copeland in Torreya for November, in an account 
of the last season’s work at the Cold Spring Harbor laboratory. 
In Part II of the current volume of Proceedings of the Academy of 
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Dr. Harshberger discusses the limits 
of variation in plants, and Mr. Meehan contributes some observa- 
tions on the upbending of mature wood in trees. 
The anatomy of the conducting tissue of style and stigma is 
being considered by Guéguen in current numbers of the Journal 
de Botanique. 
Eleanor E. Davie has compiled from the writings of the late 
W. H. Gibson an attractive little book on Blossom Hosts and Insect 
Guests, which, fully illustrated by the author’s admirable drawings, is 
published by Newson & Co. of New York. 
