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rum, by Smith and Swingle, is published as Bulletin 55 of the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Fungous diseases form the subject of Bulletin 63 of the Delaware 

 College Experiment Station, by Chester and Smith. 



Oudemans has distributed separates from the Proceedings of Jan. 

 30 of the K. Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam, describing 

 Exosporina Laricis, a new destructive parasite of the larch. 



Arthur describes and figures the three common edible species of 

 Coprinus in Bulletin g8 of the Purdue University Experiment Station. 



A paper by Stahl on the means by which lichens are protected 

 against feeding animals is separately distributed from the Festschrift 

 commemorative of Ha;ckel's 70th birthday, issued by the Fischer 

 press of Jena. 



The development of lichen apothecia is considered by Baur in the 

 Botanische Zeitung, Abteilung I, of March i. 



Coville has recently distributed separates of a well illustrated 

 paper on the Indian use of NymphcEa polysepala, from the Report of 

 the U. S. National Museum for 1902. 



An account of a new African fiber-banana, Musa ulugurensis, is 

 given by Warburg and Moritz in Der Tropenpflanzer for March. 



Van Es and Waldron give an account of stock-poisoning plants of 

 North Dakota in Bulletin ^8 of the Experiment Station of that State. 



An illustrated account of lumbering by machinery is contributed 

 by K. Smith to The World's Work of February. 



Clement is publishing a series of illustrated articles on "the Japan- 

 ese floral calendar" in current numbers of The Open Court. 



The reports on the New York Botanical Garden for 1903, con- 

 tained in Vol. 3, No. 10, of the Bulletin of the institution, show that 

 84,163 specimens were added to the herbarium, 1,656 bound volumes 

 were added to the library, and 1,000 species were added to the living 

 collection, bringing the latter up to about 11,600 species. 



An illustrated account of the Arnold Arboretum, by Miller, is pub- 

 lished in Country Life in America for March. 



40,396 visitors to the conservatories of the St. Petersburg Botani- 

 cal Garden, in 1903, are reported in its Bulletin of March 5. 



A portrait of Behrens is published as frontispiece to Heft 79 of 

 the Zeitschrift fiir wissenschaftliche Mikroskopie. 



