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THE AMERICAN NATURALIST 



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Vol. 5, no. 16 of the Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden 

 forms a general descriptive guide to the grounds, buildings and 

 collections. 



The Report of the Michigan Academy of Science, vol. 8, contains 

 the following papers of botanical interest : — Kauffman, ' Unreported 

 Michigan Fungi. . . . Beal, 'A Study of Rudheckia hirta,' and 'Some 

 Botanical Errors Found in Agricultural and Botanical Text-Books.' 

 Dandeno, 'A Stimulus to the Production of Cellulose and Starch,' 

 'A Fungus Disease of Greenhouse Lettuce,' and 'The Aerating Sys- 

 tems of Plant Tissues'; Pennington, 'Plant Distribution at Mud 

 Lake'; Smith, 'Some Notes on Nodules'; and Sackett, 'The Asso- 

 ciation of Psevdomonas radicicola with Bacillus ramosus.' 



W. T. 



