No. 447.] 



NOTES AND LITERATURE. 



in Florida ; Crawford, Some interesting Plants formerly abundant 

 near Germantown, Pa. ; and Thompson, Boniato — a Tree or a 

 Yam? 



The Plant World, January : — Safford, Extracts from the Note- 

 Book of a Naturalist on the Island of Guam — XIV ; Roosevelt, Our 

 Forest Policy ; Tullsen, Notes from Pine Ridge Agency, S. Dak. ; 

 Dobbins, The Parsleys; Barrett, Correction and Comment; and 

 Gorman, Oregon Wild Flowers in Need of Protection. 



Rhodora, December: — Fernald, Pursh's Report of Dryas from 

 New Hampshire; Ames, Lobelia X syphilitico-cardinalis \ Collins, 

 Woodsia glabella in Maine; Robinson, Records of Wolffia in Mass.; 

 Rand, Matruaria discoidea in N. H. ; Chamberlain, New Stations for 

 Maine Plants ; Pease, Trisetum in Andover, Mass. ; Freeman, 

 Lycopodium selago on Mt. Holyoke ; Osmun, Cusaita triJoUa in 

 Mass.; Harger, New Station for Phaseolus perennis ■ and Collins, 

 On Corallorhiza and Taraxacum. 



Rhodora, January : — Fernald, Two Allies of Salix lucida ■ 

 Brainerd, Notes on New England Violets; Rehder, Pseudo-mono- 

 clinism of Chionanthus virghiica ; Wiegand, Some Notes on Galium ; 

 Seymour, A Newly Introduced Galium ; and Hervey, Plants new to 

 the Flora of New Bedford. 



Tarreya, December : — Britten, Cornelius Van Brunt (with por- 

 trait) ; Cavers, Explosive Discharge of Antherozoid in Hepaticaj ; 

 Earle, Key to the North American Species of Inocybe — II ; Maxon, 

 A Fern New to the United States ; and Holm, Linnsus' Work on 

 Ferns. 



Torreya, January : — Stone, Physiological Appliances — I ; Banker, 

 Observations on Phallus ravetielii\ Canby, Joseph Hinson Melli- 

 champ; Berry, Primary Venation in Cinnamomum. 



The Trarisactions of the American Microscopical Society, Vol. 24, 

 contains the following articles of botanical interest : — Bessey, 

 Evolution in Microscopic Plants ; HoUis, Two Growths of Chlamy- 

 domonas in Ct. ; Seawell, Method of Concentrating Plankton without 

 Net or Filter; and Bessey, Structure and Classification of the 

 Phycomycetes, with a Revision of the Families and a Rearrangement 

 of the North American Genera. 



The American Botanist, of September, contains the following : — 

 Bailey, The Defences of Plants; Bradshaw, Collecting Seeds; 



