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For Juliana and Orthopterygium, Mr. Hemsley proposes a new 

 Order, Julianacefe, to go between Juglandacese and Cupuliferae,— 

 in The J ournal of Botany for November. 



Brand describes and figures under the name Trijolium pratense 

 foliosum, a glabrous clover recently introduced into American culti- 

 vation from Orel, Russia. {Bulletin no. 95, Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture). 



A considerable number of new species of the orchid genus Acovi- 

 dium are described by Ames in the Proceedings of the Biological 

 Society of Washington of September 25. 



The Department of Agriculture in India has begun the publication 

 of an important series of botanical memoirs, from the Agricultural 

 Research Institute at Pusa. The three numbers thus far received 

 refer to "Fungus Diseases of Sugar Cane in Bengal," "The Hau- 

 storium of Santalum album," and "Indian Wheat Rusts." A fourth 

 paper, on "Gossypium ohtusifolium," and a fifth, "An Account of 

 the Genus P}i;hium and some Ch\i;ridiace8e," are also announced. 



An account of Cratfegus, as richly represented in the vicinty of 

 Albany, has been separately issued by Sargent and Peck from Builetin 

 105 of the New York State Museum. 



A colored plate of Rihr.^ crunifutii is given in Curtis s> Bnfanind 

 Magazine for November. 



The first issue of The Bulletin of the Picfon Academy Scientific 

 Association contains an account of the Myxomycetes of Pictou County, 

 Nova Scotia, by C. L. Moore. 



Huber publishes a synopsis of 18 recognized species of Hevea in 

 vol. 4, no. 4, of the Boletim do Museu Goeldi, of Para. 



The fondness of cats for Act in id ia poly ga ma is re-recorded by Fair- 

 child in Science of October V^. 



Several new Cuban grasses are .Icscrihc.l l)y Hackel in the first 

 Informs Anual de la F.sfarlihi Cmfrnl Agrn„6mira dr Cnha, issued in 



volume oF Thr Pln/lppinr Jnurna/ of Srirn<l 'r.uUains a Ii>t of known 

 Philippine fun.u-i, by Hieker. 



Adams, in The Irish Xnturalist for November, notes that a molil 

 of fermenting hay thrives at an induced temperature as high as 135.5° 



