674 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST.  [Vor. XXXVI. 
If Mr. Wells’s artist could have illustrated his hypothetical lunar 
landscapes from the vegetation of the central African * mountains 
of the moon,” as figured by J. E. S. Moore in some cuts reproduced 
in Nature of January 23, he would have gained rather than lost in 
the uniqueness of the effect. 
In Forest Leaves for February Professor Rothrock figures habit and 
bark of Pyrus coronaria. 
An illustrated paper on Ochnacez, by Barteletti, is published in 
fascicle 4-6 of Malpighia. 
Professor Greene publishes three new species of Senecio from 
British Columbia in the Ottawa Naturalist for February. 
Liatris pycnostachya, as a garden plant, is illustrated in Die Gar- 
tenwelt of January 11. 
The orchids of eastern Asia, as represented in the herbarium of 
the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, form the subject of an illustrated 
paper by Finet, in the Revue générale de botanique of December r5. 
The conclusion of Spegazzini’s “ Stipeæ Platenses ” constitutes 
. No. 22, Vol. IV, of the Anales dei Museo Nacional de Montevideo. 
Fusicladium dendriticum is the subject of Bulletin No. 67 of the 
Illinois Experiment Station, by Mr. Clinton. It is illustrated by a 
number of reproductions of photographs, and eleven pages are given 
to a full bibliography, —- a feature as useful as it is unusual. 
In the Botanical Magazine of Tokyo, No. 178, Vyeda has an illus- 
trated paper on the “ Benikoji fungus " of Formosa, — used in the 
production of a red fermented rice beverage. 
Dr. Peglion publishes an article on the cereal Peronospora (Sclero- 
spora graminicola) in L’ Italia Agricola of January 15. 
“The Algz of Jamaica” is the title of a paper by F. S. Collins, 
published as Vol. XXXVII, No. 9, of the Proceedings of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
The life history of Oscillaria prolifica is sketched by Isabel F. 
Hyams and Ellen H. Richards in the Technology Quarterly of 
ember 
An ecological study of the heath formations of northern Germany, 
by Graebner, constitutes Vol. V of Engler and Drude's Die Vegeta- 
tion der Erde, and is the first of a series of volumes that are to 
deal with the plant formations of middle Europe. Though Germans 
