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An illustrated account of Solanum commersonii is contained in 

 Gartenflora of September 1, 1905. 



A chemical analysis of Tecoma mollis, by Kebler and Seidell, forms 

 Circular 24 of the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



Illustrated articles on mangroves are contributed by J. A. Dimock 

 and A. W. Dimock to Country Life in America for November, 1905. 



Warburg gives an account of Phthirusa and Strutanthus — the 

 mistletoes of rubber — in Der Tropenpfla72zer for November, 1905. 



Five additional species, and two varieties, are added to the hitherto 

 monotypic genus Osmaronia by Greene in the concluding signature 

 of Pittonia, vol. 5. 



Habit figures of Grammatophyllum speciosum, a giant orchid, are 

 given by Ridley in the May number of the Agricultural Bulletin of the 

 Straits and Federated Malay States. 



The somewhat aberrant nomenclature needs of orchid hybrids are 

 discussed by Bohlniann in Die Gartenwelt of November 11, 1905. 



The Xantliosomas cultivated under the name Yautia form the sub- 

 ject of Bul/rfiii t; of the Porto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station, 



Xo. 21 of Holm's "Studies in the Cyperaceae," ])iibli-'lir(l in Tht 

 Auwrinin Juitnial of *Sc2>«ce for September, 1905, deal- with ii. w or 



A well illustrated monograph of the wild and cultivated grasses of 

 Iowa, by Pammel, Ball, and Lamson-Scribner, forming part I'of "The 

 Grasses of Iowa," has been issued as a Supplementary Rrport of the 

 Iowa Geological Survey. 



" Poa and its Commercial Fruit Characters" is the subject of Bulletin 

 84 oi the* Bureau of Plant Industrv, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture by Brown 1 II 11 



( "a v.Mulish reports, in Iwlinn Fnirsfrr for Au-ust, that aflrr 



of the" bamboos. 



The storage and germination of Zizania seed is the subject of Bul- 

 letin 90, part 1, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture. 



