No. 453.] 



NOTES AND LITERATURE. 



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The leaf characters of Pinus are discussed by Masters in No. 248 

 of The Journal of the Linnea?i Society, Botany. 



An important paper on ferns of central China, by Christ, is pub- 

 lished in No. 173 of the Bulletin de rAcademie Internationale de 

 Geographie Botanique. 



An account of the liverworts found about Chapel Hill. N. C, is 

 given by Coker in the January yoiirnal of the Elislia Mitchell Scien- 

 tific Society. 



Part 2 of Grout's "Mosses with Hand Lens and Microscope" was 

 issued in May, and extends from Ceratodon to Tortula. 



A list of the lichens and mosses of Montana, by W. P. and C. VV. 

 Harris, forms Bulletin No. 7, Biological Series, of the University of 

 Montana. 



An account of the diatoms of the Gulf of Naples, by Balsamo, is 

 being published in the Bollettino della Societa di Naturalisti in 

 Napoli. 



A study of the plankton of Lake Winnebago and Green Lake, by 

 Marsh, forms Bulletin 12 of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural 

 History Survey. 



A monographic account of Triphragmium, by Milesi and Traverse, 

 is published in Atinales Mycologici, of March. 



An illustrated account of Stictis Banizzei, and its disease of the 

 olive, is given by Brizi in V Italia Agricola of April 15. 



An account of Colletoirichum ghvosporioides and its diseases of 

 Citrus is published by Rolfs as Bulletin 52 of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



The report of the botanist of the Connecticut Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station for 1903 is devoted to diseases of plants cultivated in 

 that State, and the inducing fungi. 



Fungous diseases of fruits in Michigan are discussed by Longyear 

 in Special Bulletin No. 25 of the Experiment Station of that State. 



The fungous parasites of Hevea form the subject of No. 34 of the 

 Notizblatt des k. botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin, by 

 Hennings. 



An exhaustive paper on the yeasts which ferment milk-sugar, by 

 Heinze and Cohn, is published in the Zeitschrift fiir Hygiene und 

 ^nfectionskrankheiten of March 31. 



