764 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [VoL. XXXVI, 
Dr. Weber, who in former years studied Opuntias with Engel- 
mann, has issued separates, from the Buletin de la Société Nationale 
d’ Acclimatation de France, of an article on the species (O. /eucotricha) 
which furnishes the prized “ Duraznillo,” or peach prickly pear 
of the high table-lands of Mexico, and its immediate relatives. 
An interesting account of the hallucinations caused by taking an 
infusion of Axhalonium lewinii is published by Havelock Ellis in the 
Popular Science Monthly for May. 
A photogram of Zchinocactus texensis is published in the Monats- 
schrift fur Kakteenkunde for April 15. 
In No. 7 of the current volume of botanical Proceedings of the 
California Academy of Sciences, Miss Eastwood gives a key to fifty- 
seven species and varieties of Ribes recognized as occurring on the 
Pacific coast, and describes nine species as new. 
Matsumura publishes a list of the wild and cultivated Leguminosz 
of Japan, Loochoo, and Formosa, in the Tokyo Botanical Magazine 
of March 20, 
M. Theuriet, an amateur of roses, published an illustrated classi- 
fied list of the 6781 species and varieties cultivated at l'Hay, France. 
Blanchard has a note on the Vermont chokeberries in Rhodora 
for March. 
In Pharmaceutical Archives for April, Mr. Denniston publishes a 
paper on the general and bark characters of Viburnum ellipticum. 
A large and fully illustrated paper on the comparative embryology 
of the Rubiacez, by F. E. Lloyd, constitutes Vol. VIII, No. 1, of 
the Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club. 
An account of Primula parryi, with an excellent half-tone illustra- 
tion, is published by Knowlton in Zhe Plant World for February. 
Scrophularia glabrata, from Arizona, is described and figured by 
Davidson in the March Bulletin of the Southern California Academy 
of Sciences. 
The seeding of Plantago fastigiata is the subject of a paper by 
Griffiths in the Buletin of the Torrey Club for March. 
Peperomia davisii, from St. Kitts, is described by Britton in 
Torreya for March. - 
A cockscomb fasciation of the pineapple is noted by Harshber- 
. ger in the concluding part for 1901 of the isum d of the Academy 
jx of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

