No. 449] NOTES AND LITERATURE. 



The association of lime-loving and lime-shunnmg plants is dis- 

 cussed by Aubert in No. 147 of the Bulletin de la Societe Vaiidoisc. 



An account of the sex-conditions and hybrids in Rihcs. i)y |:iiu> 

 zewski, is separately printed from the Biillefiii intt inataniiil ,/, 

 dhnie des Sciences de Cracovie, of December and |aiui;M v. 



The rubber-fig of New Caledonia, Ficus Sri,:, Jif, > i. is d. m .iLcd 

 and figured by Warburg in Der Tropenpflanzer . .»l I )(r(. inlu r. 



Cocoa: Its Production and Use, is the title ot a paper !>> M.u shall 

 in the American Journal of Pharmacy , for Fel)ruary. 



An illustrated account of Verba Mate - //r.i iw/s/., by 



Metzger, is contained in Der Tropenpflanzer, for Janu.iry. 



A popular article on California mistletoe, Plioradi nd> on, \\Uli i)iio- 

 tograms showing its occurrence on various trees, i.s published by 

 Helen Lukens Jones in Out West for February. 



An account of useful and interesting plants of the Congo region, 

 by de Wildeman, has been issued from the press of Spineux, of 

 Brussels. 



A short sketch of the desert flora about Phcenix, Ariz., by Dams, 

 is published in the Monatsschrift fiir Kakteenkunde, of January. 



An account of the useful plants of the Sahara desert, by Durkop, 

 forms the December number of Beihefte zum Tropenpflanzer. 



An illustrated account of Samoa and its crops, by Wohltmann, 

 constitutes Heft 1-2 of the Beihefte zum Tropenpflanzer oi 1904- 



A good illustration of a utilized school garden is contained m the 

 1902-3 Catalogue of the Boston Normal School. 



A portrait of Professor Farlow forms the frontispiece to The Popu- 

 lar Science Monthly of February. 



A portrait of Professor Peck is published as frontispiece to Vol. 1 

 of the Ohio Mycological Bulletin. 



