No: 423.] NOTES AND LITERATURE. = =" 253 
-À synopsis of thé palms of Puerto Rico, with much extra-limital 
matter, by O. F. Cook, is published, with illustrations, in the October 
Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 
Habit and detail figures of /wbea spectabilis are published in the 
Revue Horticole of January. 
In the Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France, Nos. 5-6 of the 
current volume, Gagnepain publishes a revision of the zingiberaceous 
genera Mantisia and Globba, as represented in the herbarium of the 
museum at Paris. Several new spécies are described and figured. 
In the Revue Horticole of December 16 a new Pitcairnia, P. miche- 
liana, from Mexico, is described and figured by André. 
As No. 4 of the current botanical volume of Proceedings of the 
California Academy of Sciences, is published a revision of the genus 
Calochortus, by Carl Purdy. 
In the November Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Dr. Rydberg 
monographs the species of his orchidaceous genera Limnorchis and 
Piperia, occurring north of Mexico. 
The southwestern species of Sisyrinchium are passed in review 
by Mr. Bicknell in the October Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 
Prof. H. Marshall Ward’s handbook of grasses, recently issued 
from the University Press of Cambridge, is a convenient little work, 
with keys based on vegetative characters, leaf anatomy and fruit, as 
well as the more usual flower and inflorescence characters. 
A paper by Holm on new anatomical characters for certain 
Graminez is published in Vol. XI, Heft 2, of the Beihefte zum 
botanischen Centralblatt. 
One of the most important recent cytological papers is by Dr. 
Webber on spermatogenesis and fecundation of Zamia, presented 
as a thesis for the doctor’s degree at Washington University last 
season, and now printed as Bulletin No. 2 of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, 
A paper by Worsdell on comparative anatomy of the Cycadacez 
forms Part II of the current volume of Transactions of. the Linnean 
Society of London. 
A. paper on the red cedar, ptéputed dy Di Mohr aisha woke 
his death, has recently been published as JBuHetin No. 3r of the 
Division of Forestry of the United States Départment of Agriculture; 
