THE AMERICAN NA TURALIST. [Vol. XXXVIII. 



Cultural experiments with biologic forms of the Erysiphaceae are 

 detailed by Salmon in a paper separately printed from the Philosoph- 

 ical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, vol. 197. 



"Investigations of Rusts" is the title of Bulletin A^o. 63 oi the 

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

 by Carleton. 



.■\ paper by Cooke on edible fungi is contained in fournal of the 

 Royal ITorticultural Society of May. 



The botanical articles of greatest interest in the Year-book of the 

 Unitnl States Depa,iment of Agriculture for 1903 are : — Kebler, 

 "The Adulteration of Drugs"; Taylor, "Promising New Fruits"; 

 Shepard, "Macaroni Wheat"; True, "Cultivation of Drug Plants in 

 the United States " ; Dewey, " Principal Commercial Fibers " ; and 

 the reports on plant diseases forming part of the appendix. 



Vol. I I of the Proceedings of the Lozva Academy of Sciences contains 

 the following articles of botanical interest Buchanan, " A Contri- 

 bution to our Knowledge of the Development of Prunus Americana " ; 

 Miller, "The Lichen Flora of the 'Ledges,' Boone County, Iowa"; 

 Martin, "A Chemical Study of Rhus glabra^' ; Cratty, "The Flora of 

 Emmet County"; and Mueller, "A Preliminary List of the Flowering 

 Plants of Madison County." 



A number of interesting botanical papers are contained in the 

 recently issued Vol. 36 of the Transactions and Proceedings of the 

 New Zealand Institute. 



Vol. I of Rendle's "Classification of Flowering Plants" (Cam- 

 bridge, 1904) deals with Gymnosperms and Monocotyledons. 



An account of Paionia, as now popularly cultivated, is contributed 

 by Miller to Country Life in America for September. 



The first part of a discussion of the variability of Eucalyptus 

 under cultivation is published by Maiden in No. 1 1 2 of the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Unnean Society of New South Wales. 



An illustratetl account of the cultivation of Acacia mollissima, by 

 Fairchild. forms Ihillcfin no. 3 1 , part 4 oi the Bureau of Plant Indus- 



Vol. ID, part I, of the Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, 

 consists of a revision of the species of Dalbergia of S. E. Asia, by 



