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Some Copper Compounds with Special Reference to Bordeaux Mix- 
ture" (7 figs.); Clinton, * Cladochytrium alismatis " (3 pls.) ; Arthur, 
“Clues to Relationship among Hetercecious Plant Hosts"; Good- 
ding, “ Rocky Mountain Plant Studies, I.” 
The January number of Country Life in America is a California 
number. Among things of interest to the botanist are excellent 
habit photograms of Washingtonia filifera, Sequoia gigantea, Quercus 
lobata, Yucca arborescens, and the famous Monterey cypresses, and an 
exquisite flower portrait of Romneya coulteri. 
In Country Life in America for February Mrs. Comstock writes on 
trees, Mr. Davy on the poppyworts, the editor on the nature-study 
idea, and Mr. Mowbray on the gardens of the old Hudson River 
manors. Many of the half-tone illustrations are not only exquisite 
but of botanical value. 
The fifth fascicle of Vol. I of Mr. Howell’s Fora of Northwest 
America reaches into the genus Plantago, the Benthamian sequence 
being followed. Like preceding parts, it contains descriptions of a 
few new species. 
A phytogeographic paper on Silesia, by Schube, is published as 
a complementary Heft to Bd. LXXVIII of the Jahresbericht der 
Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur. 
Vol. XVI of the Acata societatis pro fauna et flora fennica is entirely 
devoted to papers discussing the flora of the country. 
In Vol. XIII of the Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 
in Basel Binz gives an interesting comparison of the present flora 
of that part of Switzerland in comparison with what Bauhin knew of 
it three centuries ago. 
Vol. IV of Engler and Drude’s Vegetation der Erde is by Beck von 
Mannagetta, and deals with the Illyrian region. It is published by 
Engelmann of Leipzig. 
A historical bibliography of the flora of Rome is in course of publi- 
cation by Pirotta and Chiovenda, in the Annuario of the botanical 
institute of that city. 
A second part of Ross’ “ Beitráge zur Flora von Sizilien” is pub- 
lished in No. 12 of the Buletin de /' Herbier Boissier for 1901. 
A paper on Dr. Baldacci’s Albanian collections of 1897 has 
recently been separately printed from the Memoire of the Bologna 
Academy. 
