476 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vol. XXXVIIl. 



An account of Mexican tea {Turmra aphrodisiaca) is published by 

 J. U. Lloyd in the Pharmaceutical Renew for April. 



A note on Rudbeckia, by Pihl, in Svcnska Trddgardsfdrcningens 

 Tidskrift of January, is illustrated by colored figures of several culti- 

 vated species. 



A series of ten illustrations, showing the development of an elm 

 shoot, by Richards, is published in Country Life in America for April. 

 A third signature of Professor Greene's "Leaflets" continues his 



Holm's "Studies in the Cyperacea; — XXL" published in The 

 American Journal of Science for April, deals with new or little known 

 species of Carex. 



Parish begins a preliminary synopsis of Southern California Cy- 

 peracese in the Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sci- 

 ences for March. 



Certain Canadian mosses are enumerated by Cufoni in No. 7-9 of 

 the Bullettino delta Societct Botanica Italiaha of 1903, which also con- 

 tains a note by Baroni on the botanic garden of Mt. ^fitna. 



by Earle in Science for March 25. 



Copeland has an article on Californian fungi in Annales Mycologici 

 for January. 



Rehm pubUshes diagnoses of a number of North American Asco- 

 mycetes in Annales Mycologici of January. 



An account of two hundred Portuguese fungi has been distributed 

 b> Professor d'Almeida of Lisbon. 



Klebahn's "Die wirtswechselnden Rostpilze " (Gebriider Born- 

 traeger, Berlin, 1904) forms a large volume containing a detailed 

 analysis of heteroicism followed by an account of the species show- 

 ing this peculiarity and ample indexes to fungi and hosts. 



Taphria coerulescens is the subject of Bulletin 126 of the Alabama 

 Experiment Station, by Wilcox. 



Salmon gives an account of recent researches on the specialization 

 of parasitism in Erysiphaceee in Annales Mycologici for January, and 

 The New Phytologist of Feb. 27. 



An account of dry rot of the potato, caused by Fusarium oxyspo- 



