
No. 428.] NOTES AND LITERATURE. 673 
Professor Branner, who paid particular attention to palms while 
connected with the geological survey of Brazil, twenty or more 
years ago, and who then published an exhaustive account of the 
Structure of the palm stem, has once more taken up his notes, 
and in the Popular Science Monthly for March gives a well-written 
illustrated account of the ecological and economic characteristics of 
the Brazilian palms. 
No. 22 of the current series of “ Contributions from the Gray Her- 
barium of Harvard University," constituting Vol. XX XVII, No. 17, of 
the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is by 
Mr. Fernald and deals with species of Carex. 
A memoir on Ustilago reiliana, by Mottareale, has been separately 
issued from Vol. IV, fascicle 2, of the Annali della R. Scuola Superiore 
d’ Agricolture in Portici. 
Hefte 7, 8 of Engler's Das Pfanzenreich are devoted respectively 
to Naiadacez (by Rendle) and Aceracez (by Pax). 
The fourth part, concluding Vol. I, and the second part of Vol. II, 
of the British Museum Catalogue of the African Plants collected by 
Dr. Friederich Welwitsch in 1853-61 have been distributed by the 
trustees of the Museum. 
Vol. III, Part III, of J. Medley Wood’s Wata? Plants, comprising 
Pls. CCLI to CCLXXV, inclusive, has recently been issued. 
Vol. VII of the * Flore de France," by Rouy and Foucaud (con- 
tinued by Rouy and Camus), constitutes the 1900 volume of the 
Annales de 1’ Académie de La Rochelle, recently issued. It extends 
from Rosacez to Cornacez. 
Another of Dr. von Schrenk's important contributions to the 
economic study of mycology constitutes Bulletin No. rg of the 
Bureau of Plant Industry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
and deals with the decay of timber and methods of preventing it. 
In addition to the results of his own study, the author includes a 
Summary of the preventive results reached in Europe. As in his 
. earlier papers, illustrations are both full and good. _ 
A detailed account of the raising and manufacture of vanilla, by 
Lecomte and Chalot, is published from the press of Naud of Paris. 
A paper on the Caoutchouc-yielding Landolphiacez, by Hua and 
Chevalier, is issued by Challamel of Paris. 
