No. 453-3 NOTES AND LITERA TURE. 



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Co., 1904) forms an octavo of 66 pages. Each entry is followed by 

 habitat and distribution data by counties. 



A check-list of the higher plants of Hamilton County. ( )hio. and a 

 list of medicinal plants growing in the vicinity of Cincinnaii. both by 

 Aiken, form no. 4 of Vol. 20 of the Journal of the Cinnmuiti Soricty 

 of Natural History. 



A few separates of the several chapters of Vol. 5 of the jMihlic a- 

 tions of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, deahng with the crypto- 

 gams, have been distributed by the authors. 



A dictionary of plant names of the Philippine Islands, by Merrill, 

 forms a bulletin from the Philippine Bureau of Government Labora- 



A paper on the flora of St. Andrews, New Brunswick, by Fowler, 

 is published in "Contributions to Canadian Biology," — a supple- 

 ment to the 32d A?inual Report of the Department of Marine and 

 Fisheries, Fisheries Branch, of Canada. 



Fascicle 2 of Millspaugh's " Plantae Yucatanae," forming Vol. 3, 

 no. 2, of the botanical series of Publications of the Field Colmnbian 

 Museum, deals with Compositee, by C. F. Millspaugh and Agnes 

 Chase, and is admirably illustrated. 



The first fascicle of Vol. 3 of Halacsy's "Conspectus Florae 

 GrffiCEB," recently issued, covers Lentibulariaceae to part of Cyper- 

 aceaj. 



A general comparison of the Alpine floras of Australia and Eu- 

 rope is given by Weindorfer in The Victorian Naturalist of Septem- 



Forbes and Hemsley's enumeration of the plants of China, etc., 

 forming Vol. 36 of the Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany), has 

 reached the 18th part, dealing with parts of Cyperacea; and Gram- 

 Warburg and de Wildeman have begun the publication of an 

 account of Ficus as represented in the Congo district, in the Annales 

 du Mush du Congo, the first fascicle being issued in January, 1904. 



The newly established Records of the Albany Museum, of Grahams- 

 town, is in part devoted to South African botany. 



Part 10 of Hough's American Woods, comprising nos. 226 to 250, 

 represents chiefly western and southwestern species, — perhaps the 



