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The Botanical Gazette for June contains the following articles : 
Rimbach, “ Physiological Observations on the Subterranean Organs 
of some Californian Liliacez "; Smith, * The Parasitism of Botrytis 
cinerea”; Shaw, “The Development of Vegetation in the Morainal 
Depressions of the Vicinity of Woods Hole"; Webb, * A Morpho- 
logical Study of the Flower and Embryo of Spiræa ” ; Fairchild, D. G., 
* A Precocious Poplar Branch”; and Wilcox, * Numerical Variation 
of the Ray Flowers of Compositz.” 
Botanical papers in No. 7 of the Bulletin of the New York Botani- 
cal Garden are: Earle, * Mycological Studies," I; Williams, “A 
Preliminary List of Montana Mosses" ; and Hollick, “ year oe and 
Botanical Notes, Cape Cod and Chaa t Island, Mass. 
Torreya for June contains the following botanical articles : Rydberg, 
“ Our Yellow Lady's-Slippers ” ; Underwood, ** The Bracket Fungi” ; 
Lloyd, “ An Interesting Irregularity in a Rose Flower”; and Brit- 
ton, E. G., “ Notes on a Long Island Moss.” 
The Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for May is entirely occu- 
pied with Cryptogams, mostly fungi. 
Botanical articles in the Ohio Naturalist for June are: Kellerman 
and Tyler, “ Further Additions to the Catalogue of Ohio Plants” ; 
Dresbach, “ Moulds Injurious to Foods”; and Tyler, “ Rosette 
Plants of Ohio.” 
A large part of Engler’s Botanische Jahrbücher continues to be 
occupied with descriptions of African plants. 
As usual with the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, the 
number for April contains several articles of general botanical interest. 
After an intermission of eight years, the Journal of Mycology begins 
its eighth volume with No. 61, bearing date May, 1902. 
The great multiplication of species in Crataegus is commented on 
by Professor Bessey in Science for May 16. 
A paper by Knuth on the geographic distribution, adaptive struc- 
ture, and classification of the species of Geranium, is published in 
Engler’s Botanische Jahrbücher of May 2. 
A monograph of the Senecios of North and Central America, by 
Dr. Greenman, is published as a contribution from the laboratory of 
the Berlin Garden, in the first Heft for the current year of Engler’s 
Botanische Jahrbücher. Keys are given to the sections, under each 
of which are enumerated the species recognized as belonging to it. 
