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Bulletin 21 of the Boston M ycological Club is devoted to Agaricus 



Accounts are given, in the January Journal of the Ne^c York 

 Botanical Garden, of the laboratories of the institution, including 

 that in Jamaica, and of the Carnegie desert laboratory at Tucson. 



A well illustrated account of the Desert Botanical Laboratory of 

 the Carnegie Institution, and of the desert regions of the Southwest, 

 by Coville and MacDougal, constitutes Publication No. 6 of the 

 Institution. 



A note in the Jour7ial of the Kew Guild for 1903, shows that in 

 1902 1,323,376 persons visited the famous botanical gardens at 

 Kew, the average for each of the previous ten years being 1,355,503. 



Ramirez, in Anales del Instituto Medico nacional, vol. 6, no. 2, 

 publishes notes on some of the manuscript icones of Sess^ and 

 Mocino. 



" The Book of Herbs," by Lady Rosalind Northcote (John Lane, 

 London and New York, 1903), is a tasty and interesting little book, 

 well illustrated, and with a portrait of Parkinson for frontispiece. 



Those who care for old books will find interest in a supplementary 

 catalogue of the Sturtevant Prelinnean Library of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden, by Hutchings, published in the 14th Report of 

 that institution. 



An account of the botanical work that has been done in the 

 Philippines, with a bibliography, is given by Merrill in Bulletin no. 4, 

 of the Bureau of Agriculture of the islands. 



The third part of vol. 2 of Wood's "Natal Plants," devoted to 

 grasses, and the first part of vol. 4 of the same work, containing 

 gamopetalae, have recently been issued. 



A popular Sketch of Hawaiian botany, by Morrison, is contained 

 in Floral Life for November. 



Some views of the vegetation of the Dismal Swamp accompany 

 an article on the proposed ship canal through it, in The American 

 Inventor of December i . 



Dr. Holm contributes some Notes on Canadian Species of Viola 

 to The Ottawa Naturalist, for December. 



