Nos. 455-456.] NOTES AND LITERATURE. 



A companion to M. van den Bossche's " Icones Selectae Horti 

 Thenensis " has been started, also with the botanical collaboration 

 of de Wildeman and the delineating skill of d'Apreval, under the 

 title "Plantae Novae vel Minus Cognitae ex Herbario Horti Thenen- 

 sis." The first part bears date March, 1904. 



An account of the Harvard Botanical Station in Cuba, with ex- 

 tracts from Superintendent Grey's report, is given by Dr. Goodale in 

 The American Jour?iaI of Science for July. 



A quarto treatise on the Phytoplankton of the Atlantic and its 

 tributaries, by P. T. Cleve, is published by the author at Upsala. 



A large number of economic topics are well treated by Halsted in 

 his recently issued Report of the Botanical Department of the New 

 Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, for 1903. 



An account of the principal commercial plant fibers, by Dewey, is 

 separately printed from the Yearbook of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, for 1903. 



An illustrated account of some old trees, by PoUmer, is contained 

 in Die Gartemveii of June 25. 



Professor Peck's Report of the State Botanist for 1903, published 

 as Bulletin 75 of the New York State Museum, contains among other 

 things a paper on edible fungi and one on the species of Crataegus 

 found in the State. 



Experiments in the heredity of peas are detailed by Hurst in the 

 fournalofthe Royal Horticultural Society of May. 



A second edition of E. G. Paris' " fndex Bryologicus," reaching to 

 the end of 1900, is being issued in fascicles from the Hermann Press, 

 of Paris. 



A further addition to the nomenclature literature to be laid before 

 the Vienna Congress of 1905, by Harms, forms appendix 13 to the 

 current Notizblatt des K. botanischen Gartens wid Museiwis zn Berlin, 

 and is dated June 20, [904. 



A bacterial rot of the Calla is described by Townsend in Bulletin 

 No. 60 of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



An account of "fungoid pests of the garden," by Cooke, is con- 

 tained in current numbers of the foiirnal of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society. 



