
598 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
A list of new plants from the Cape Peninsula is published by 
Major Wolley Dod in the December number of the Journal of Botany. 
An account of the vegetation of the Caroline Islands, by Volkens, 
is published in Bd. XXXI, Heft 3, of the Botanische JaArbücher. 
Several interesting process plates accompany the text. 
Several botanical papers are contained in the recently issued 
second part of Vol. XXVI of Proceedings of the Linnean Society of 
New South Wales. 
Vol XXXIII of the Transactions and Proceedings of the New 
Zealand Institute contains the following botanical papers: Cockagne, 
“Seedling Forms of New Zealand Phanerogams," “Gunnera and Myo- 
sotis in Chatham Islands"; Laing, * Seaweeds of Norfolk Island" ; 
Walsh, ** Cordyline terminalis in New Zealand" ; Cheeseman, « Culti- 
vated Food Plants of the Polynesians, with Special Reference to 
Cordyline terminalis,” “ Recent Additions to the New Zealand Flora” ; 
Thomson, “Plant-Acclimatisation in New Zealand”; Rutland, 
“Regrowth of the Totara”; Petrie, “Descriptions of New Native 
Plants"; Brown, “Notes on the New Zealand Musci.” In the Pro 
ceedings of the Affiliated Societies some minor botanical notes are 
given, among them a rather curious surmise concerning Selaginella 
lepidophylla. 
The announcement of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods 
Hole sets forth an attractive programme of studies and lectures for the 
coming summer. Inthe department of botany courses are provided 
in cryptogamic botany by Dr. Dacis, Dr. Moore, and Mr. A. c. 
Moore; in ecology by Dr. Cowles and Dr. Shaw; in plant physi- 
ology by Dr. R. H. True, and in cytology by Dr. Davis and Mr. Wolfe. 
In addition to the work of the session, which will extend from July 2 
to August 13, an expedition will be organized to Mt. Katahdin and 
the coast'of Maine for the purpose of conducting ecological studies 
in that region. 
