No. 432.] NOTES AND LITERATURE. 985 
The Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia for April 
contains a report of the Brown-Harvard expedition to Labrador in 
1900, and includes an extensive account of the botany of the expe- 
dition, with lists of the plants collected. 
The West American Scientist for August, selling for ten cents, and 
Mr. Orcutt’s Review of the Cactacee for the same month, selling for 
twenty-five cents, consists of the same signature of cactus notes. 
A photogram of Echinocactus cylindraceus is contained in the 
August number of the Monatsschrift fur Kakteenkunde. 
Die Gartenwelt of August 23 contains an article on noteworthy 
trees of Hanover, illustrated by a number of pictures of trees grow- 
ing under unusual conditions and displacing objects in their way. 
Fasciation in the leaves of Auonymus japonicus is described by 
De Camps in the Memorias de la Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes 
de Barcelona, Vol. IV, No. 20. 
The exhibition of botanical objects under the microscope in 
museums is the subject of an illustrated article by Howe in the 
Journal of the New York Botanical Garden for September. 
The Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture for 1901, in addi- 
tion to the usual administrative and statistical portions, contains 
a large number of economic articles, many of them of botanical 
interest. 
The many publications of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
including those issued by the Patent Office, have been listed by the 
division of publications of the department in a recently issued bul- 
letin, which will prove very serviceable to libraries possessing sets 
of these publications. A catalogue of the botanical publications 
in the library of the same department, by Miss Clarke, constitutes 
Library Bulletin No. 22 of the department. 
An interesting item in Advance Sheets of Consular Reports of 
August 30 shows that during July one hundred and eighty thousand 
bunches of bananas were shipped from Puerto Cortes, Honduras, 
to New Orleans and Mobile, and one hundred thousand additional 
bunches were paid for and destroyed by the contractors. 
An economic study of berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum), much 
cultivated in the Nile valley, forms the subject of Bulletin No. 23 
of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the U.S. Department of Agri- 
culture, written by Fairchild. 
