816 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST [Vol. XL 



Stoneman's Plants and flirir ICaz/.v in Sanfli Africa. Familiar farts 

 arc supplemented by (to us) (iiif;imili:ir illustrations. 



Some new plants from the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks are 

 described by Miss Farr in The Oliawa Naturalist for August. 



Vol. 7 of Engler and Drude's Vegetation der Erde is devoted to a 

 part of West Australia, tr,-aled by Diels. 



rUr^•^V^rv unvr. an illuMr.tcd account <.f A.lansonia in no. (', of the 



Mr. A. 1). Fluicr has begtm tiic ].ul)lication, at Alanila, of a 

 new serial inid. r th(> title Leaflets on Philippine Botany. The first 

 number, dated April s. is devoted to a paj)er on Philippine Rubiacesc, 

 by the editor. 



Goodale has a note on the persistence of Calluna in Massachusetts 

 in The American Journal of Science for August. 



Viguier publishes the results of an anatomico-systematic study of 

 Araliaccje in ser. 9, vol. 4, nos. 1 of the Annales des Sciences Natur- 

 elles, Botanique, issued in July. 



The flowering of Agavr jxiltncn and .1. Irrheguilla is reported in 

 the Journal of the Xeir Vnrh Holntiiral Harden for August. 



Aloe campijlosiphon is fi(rur(>(l l)y Berger in Die Gartenwelt of August. 

 11. 



Showers of conilVr pollen in Mexico, and its accumulation on the 

 water in the crater of '['(.luea. are recorded bv Urbina in vol. 3, no. 

 7, of die Analr. ,!, I Mu^,n \n, innn! ,lr Mr, -in',. 



An a<-count of -he p:,i.>nino- of horM-. by F^iuisetum arren.se is given 

 by Peter> and Stunlevant in the I'.Hh Aunml Report of the Agrirnl- 



nu a diM.a.e of the Coiionuood .hie to l-Ujungia mrgalnma, hy llca'id. 



A tully ilhi>i rated article on fern buds is published by Kupper in. 

 Flora of July 2.3. 



