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An account of the lichens of the northern boundary of Minnesota, 

 by Fink, is separately printed from Minnesota Botanical Studies, under 

 date of July 3. 



Vol. 4 of De Toni's Sylloge Algarum, recently issued, continues the 

 Floridea;. 



An account of the algte which contaminate public water supplies, 

 by Moore, is separately printed from the Yearbook of the Depnrt- 

 ment of Agriculture, for 1902. 



A most interesting portrait gallery of distinguished botanists is 

 contained in Professor Wittrock's "Catalogus Illustratus Iconotheca- 

 Botnnica; Horti Bergiani Stockholmiensis,'" issued as \ nl. 3. Xd. 2. 

 of tiie Acta Horti Bergiani. 



A portrait of Celakovsky forms the frontis])iece to the Sitziiiig- 

 sherichte der k. bohm. Gesellschaft der Wissensc/ia/ten — Mat/icwatisc/i- 

 naturivissenschaftliche Classe, for 1902. 



A short account of the San Salvador botanical garden is contained 

 in the Anales del Museo Nacional of that Republic, of August 1. 



A sketch of the botanical gardens at Frankfurt am Main. In 

 Mobius, is separately printed from the 1903 Beric/it der scnckenhcr- 

 gischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 



The Journals The American Botanist, for July, cc t 1 



following popular articles Bradshaw, "The Castor-oil Plant"; 

 Hffiselbarth, ''The Walking Fern"; and Clute, ''Pollination of the 

 Sunflower." 



The Botanical Gazette, for August, contains the following : — Law- 

 son, "Studies in Spindle Formation"; Frye, "The Fmbryo-sac of 

 Casiiarina stricta'' ■ Coker, "The Gametophyte and Fnihryo of Tax- 

 odium —concluded " ; Bliss, "The Occurrence of two \ enters in 

 the Archegonium of Polytrichnm juniperiniim " ; and Cook. " I'olyem 

 bryony in Ginkgo." 



The Botanical Gazette, of September, contains the following arti- 

 t^les : — Ganong, "The Vegetation of the Bay of Fundy salt and 

 diked Marshes"; Shull, "Geographic Distribution of 'jsoctcs sac- 

 charata''-^ Parish, "A Sketch of the Flora of Southern California": 

 Thorn, " A Gall upon a Mushroom " ; and Coker, •• Selected .Votes, 

 n.-^ Liverworts." 



