No. 447.] 



NOTES AND LITERATURE. 



— II; Wentworth, Two Plants new to the Flora of Lynn, Mass.; 

 Woolson, New Station for ^jr//^////m eheiienm Iforfoiiar ■ W. M. 

 Britton, A New England Station for Buxbaumia iiidnsiala ; Kami. 

 Galinsoga in Maine; and A Leaflet of the Seal Harbor \'illa-c 

 Improvement Society. 



Part 3 of Trees and Shrubs, issued Nov. 14, adds still further to 

 the number of American species of Crataegus. 



2yie Bulletin of the Torrey Botatiical Club for October contains the 

 following articles : — Cannon, Studies in Plant Hybrids — The 

 Spermatogenesis of Hybrid Peas ; and Evans, Hepatic;x^ of Puerto 

 Rico — III. 



The Bryologist, for November, contains the following : — Britton, 

 The Splachnums ; Holzinger, On Some Fossil Mosses ; Grant, Some 

 Moss Societies ; Miller, Buxhaumia aphylla ; and Clarke, Mounting 

 Mosses. 



In addition to an important paper on Crassulacea% by Britton 

 and Rose, vol. 3, no. 9, of the Bulletin of the New York Botanical 

 Garden contains a paper by Berry on the Flora of the Matawan 

 Formation, one by Williams on Bolivian Mosses, and one by Zeleny 

 on the Dimensional Relations of the Members of Compound Leaves. 



The Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, for December, contains 

 the following articles: — Griggs, On Some Species of Heliconia ; 

 Underwood, Summary of our Present Knowledge of the Ferns of the 

 Philippines ; and Kupfer, Anatomy and Physiology of Baccharis 

 gefiistelloides. 



The Fern Bulletin, for October, contains the following articles: — 

 Gilbert, The Fern Flora of New York ; Clute, Fernwort Notes— IV : 

 House, Scolopendrium from Canada ; Eaton, The Genus Fquisetum 

 in North America — XV; Clute, The Species-conception among the 

 Ternate Botrychiums ; and Druery, New Forms of Ferns. A portrait 

 of Mr. Maxon forms the frontispiece to the number. 



Part II of the botanical portion of the International Catalogue of 

 Scientifc Literature has been issued under date of November, 1903. 

 It is of nearly double the size of the first part (626 pages), and is 

 essentially on the same lines as the earlier part. 



The fo2irnal of Mycology, for October, contains the following 

 articles :— Morgan, Some Western Specimens; Morgan, Note on 

 Corticium leucothrix ; I. Kellerman, The Accentuation of Mycological 



