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Of the leaflets of Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washing- 

 ton issued under date of October 10, several refer to botany. 



A Flora Arctica, in English, under the editorial care of C. H. 

 Ostenfeld, is being issued from Det Nordiske Forlag, of Copenhagen. 

 The first part, dealing with the Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, and 

 Monocotyledons, by Gelert and Ostenfeld, occupies 134 well illus- 

 trated pages. 



Vol. XXX IV of the Transactions and Proceedings of the New 

 Zealand Institute, issued in July last, has 166 pages devoted to 

 botany, chiefly referring to the island. Perhaps the most generally 

 interesting paper is one on the prothallus of Phylloglossum. 



An important " Flora of Koh Chang," by Schmidt, with the assist- 

 ance of a number of specialists, is being published in current numbers 

 of the Botanisk Tidsskrift. 



A further study of the revegetation of Krakatoa, by Penzig, is 

 contained in the concluding number of Vol. XVIII of the Annales du 

 Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg. 



A discussion of the southeastern United States as a center of geo- 

 graphical distribution of both animals and plants, is reprinted by 

 C C. Adams from the Biological Bulletin, Vol. Ill, No. 3. 



Some of the Crassulacea- of South Africa are being revised by 

 Schonland and E. C. Baker in current issues of the Journal of Botany. 



A voluminous study of the Myricacea?, by Chevalier, occupies a 

 large part of Vol. XXXII of the Memoircs de la Societe nationalc of 

 Cherbourg. 



Separates of a paper on the Carices of Japan, by Le'veille' and 



