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THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vol. XXXVII. 



Rhodora for July, in addition to a large number of notes of local 

 interest, contains an article by Dr. Robinson on the protection of 

 our native flora, descriptions of several new grasses, by Merrill, and 

 a protest by Fernald against the substitution of Washingtonia for 

 Osmorhiza, apropos of the discovery of Osmorhiza obtusa in Labrador. 



The August number of Rhodora contains the following articles : 

 Fernald, " Taraxacum palustre in America " ; Davenport, " Notes on 

 New England Ferns " ; Sargent, " Additions to the Flora of Mas- 

 sachusetts " ; Williams, "Noteworthy Carices at Sudbury, Massa- 

 chusetts"; Shaw, "Carex aurea in Connecticut"; Norton, "New 

 Stations for Peltranda and Conopholis " ; Chamberlain, " Aulacom- 

 nium heterostichum in Maine " ; Lee, " Aquilegia canadensis var. 

 flaviflora in Maine " ; Rich, "/uncus torreyi and Ellisia nyctelea in 

 Massachusetts." 



Torreya for August contains the following articles : Lloyd, " Vivip- 

 ary in Podocarpus"; Earle, "A Key to the North American Spe- 

 cies of Russula " ; Howe, " A Note on the Vitality of the Spores of 

 Marsilea " ; Abrams, " A New Hemizonia from California " ; Brit- 

 ton, "An Undescribed Species of Hydrophyllum "; Eggert, "Notes 

 on Verbena " ; Shinn, " Lunularia cruciata in Fruit." 



Recent articles not likely to meet the eye of most botanists are : 

 Lemmon, " Conifers of the Pacific Slope," in Sierra Club Hutu tin, 

 Vol. IV, No. 2, and Lemmon, " Oaks of Pacific Slope," in Transac- 

 tions of Pacific States Floral Congress. 



Vol. Ill, Part IV, of J. Medley Wood's Natal Plants, concluding 

 that volume, has recently been issued from the press of Bennett & 

 Davis, of Durban. Each volume contains one hundred habit and 

 detail plates with appropriate text. 



Fascicle 6 of Vol. I of Mr. Howell's Flora of Northwest America, 

 comprising pages 563 to 666, completes Plantaginacea; and reaches 

 into Pontederiaceas. 



The results of studies on relations of plants to electricity made 

 at the Harvard botanic garden, are given in a paper by Plowman 

 in the American fournal of Science for August. 



The effects of a tornado in the Victoria (Kamerun) botanical 

 garden are noted by Preuss in Dcr Tropenpfianzer for July. 



In Country Life in America for September, H. A. Doty has an 

 article on the Pollination of Asclepias, illustrated by a number of 

 low-power photo-micrographs. 



