826 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vor. XXXVI. 
Canaries, published, in connection with an article on some mosses 
of the latter islands, by Cardot, in No. 5 of the Bulletin de 7 Herbier 
Boissier for the present year. 
No. 10 of Marcus E. Jones’s Contributions to Western Botany, issued 
as an individual publication by the author from the Mammoth Record 
Print of Robinson, Utah, under date of June 1, 1902, contains a 
revision of the Alliums of the Great Basin region, with notes on the 
markings of the bulbs and a key to the species based on them; 
further notes on Astragalus; a study of the Nyctaginaceze, chiefly of 
the region of the Great Plateau ; and descriptive or synonymic notes 
on a number of miscellaneous species. 
The flora of Scott and Muscatine counties, Iowa, is the subject of 
a paper by Barnes, Reppert, and Miller, in the recently issued eighth 
volume of Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences. 
A botanical series of the University of California Publications 
begins with the issuance, under date of June 7, of a paper by H. M 
Hall, entitled * A Botanical Survey of San Jacinto Mountain." It 
appears to be a well done piece of work, on the prevalent ecological 
lines, and is well illustrated. 
A catalogue of British marine algz, by Batters, is in course of publi- 
cation as a supplement to current numbers of the Journal of Botany. 
A large part of Vol. III, fasc. 3-6, of Ze Botaniste, dated June 10, 
is occupied by a paper on Euglenia, by Dangeard. 
Cladophora, as represented in the salt water of New England, — 
a difficult group, — is revised by Collins, in RAodora for June. 
Studies of spore germination in the common mushroom and other 
agarics, by Miss Ferguson, form Buletin No. 16 of the Bureau of 
Plant Industry of the national Department of Agriculture. 
The Geastrez of the United States are revised in an illustrated 
paper by C. G. Lloyd, forming Bulletin No. 5 (mycological series, 
No. 2) of the Lloyd Library. 
In the Journal of Botany for June, Arthur Lister describes and 
figures a Chondrioderma, — C. asteroides, — which in aspect resem- 
bles to a marked degree a small Geaster. 
The Technology Quarterly for June contains an article by Whipple 
on the physical properties of gelatin, with reference to its use in 
culture-media. 
A paper on albino phenomena in the vegetable kingdom, by 
Pantanelli, is published in Nos. 10—12 of Vol. XV of Malpighia. 
