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Saunders, Poison Ivy and its Extermination ; Buchheister, Variations 

 in the Common Polypody ; Gilbert, The Jewel Weeds ; and part 6 

 of the Editor's Botany for Beginners. 



The Botanical Gazette for October contains the following articles : 

 — Harshberger, An Ecological Study of the Flora of Mountainous 

 North Carolina; Parish, Sketch of the Flora of Southern CaHfornia 

 (conchided) ; Ganong, Vegetation of the Bay of Fundy Salt and 

 Diked Marshes, An Ecological study (continued) ; Atkinson, A New 

 species of Geaster; Davis, Tilletia in the Capsule ol Bryophytes ; and 

 Lyon, Two Megasporangia in Selaginella. 



T/ie Botanical Gazette, for November, contains the following : — 

 Evans, Odontoschisma Macounii and its North American Allies ; 

 Ganong, Vegetation of the Bay of Fundy Salt and Diked Marshes; 

 Harshberger, An Ecologic Study of the Flora of Mountainous North 

 Carolina (concluded) ; Moore, Mitoses in the Spore Mother-cell of 

 Pallavicinia ; and Haug, Is Detmer's Experiment to show the Need 

 of Light in Starch-making reliable ? 



Volume lo of the Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences con- 

 tains the following botanical articles : — Pammel, Ecological Notes on 

 the Vegetation of the Uintah Mountains ; Weems and Hess, Chem- 

 ical Composition of Nuts used as Food ; and Fitzpatrick, The Scro- 



The Proceedings ol the second meeting of the Iowa Park and For- 

 estry Association, recently distributed, contain a number of articles of 

 botanical interest. 



The Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, for November, 

 contains the following : — Britton, Report on Cuban Exploration; 

 Lloyd, Report of a Botanical Expedition to the Island of Dominica; 

 and Nash, Report on Exploration in Hayti. 



A new publication, " Leaflets of Botanical Observation and Criti- 

 cism," has been launched by Professor E. L. Greene. The first 

 signature is dated Nov. 24, 1903. 



The Plant World, for November, contains the following : — Mac- 

 Dougal, Some Aspects of Desert Vegetation ; SafTord, Extracts from 

 the Note-Book of a Naturalist on the Island of Guam — XII ; Barrett, 

 A Forgotten Fruit ; and Waters, Field Notes. 



Rhodora for October contains the following articles : — Robinsofi, 

 Insecticides used at the Gray Herbarium ; Fernald, A new Kobresia 

 m the Aroostook Valley ; Cushman, Notes on New England Desmids 



