No. 447.] 



NOTES AND LITER A TU RE. 



"The Flow of Maple Sap" is the sul)jcct of nnllctu, Xo. /oj of 

 the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Adams in J3u//et/,i g6 of the^ Rhode Island Agiicultunii i;xiH r,nu>nt 



Vol. 4, no. 3 of the West Indian Bulldin is cIcn otc.l to ( olton. 



The extent of variability in FAicalyptus is considered by Maiden 

 in Vol. 36 of \\\^ Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New 

 South Wales. 



A systematic-anatomical study of the leaf in Acer, with special 

 reference to the late elements, by Warsow, has been issued from the 

 Fischer press, of Jena. 



An anatomico-biological thesis on seeds of Podalyriea;, by Lindin- 

 ger, has been issued from the Fischer press, of Jena. 



An interesting thesis on the anatomy and biology of the fruit and 

 seed of certain aquatics, by Fauth, has been issued from the Fischer 

 press, of Jena. 



The principal species of wood and their characteristic properties 

 are described by Snow in an illustrated volurne recently issued from 

 the press of John Wiley and Sons of New York. 



America, by Fairchild, forms Bulletin No. S4 oi the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Germinating spores in a fossil fern sporangium are described by 

 Scott in The New Phytologist of January 27. 



A preliminary notice on fertilization, alternation of generations 

 and general cytology of Uredineae is published by Blackman in The 

 New Phytologist of January 27. 



New or unrecorded Australian fungi are being published by 

 McAlpine in the current Proceedings of the Linnean Society of Nejv 

 South Wales. 



An article on the genus Harpochytrium in the United States, by 

 Atkinson, is published in the Annales Mycologici, for November. 



A paper on Italian Hypogaeae, by Mattirolo is separately issued 

 by the Accademia Reale delle Scienze di Torino. 



