1 4 2 THE A ME RICA N NA TURA LIS T. [Vol. XXX V 1 1 . 



for 1 90 1 and 1902, and the Bulletin de la Societe botanique de France 

 and the Proces- Verba ux de la Societe d'histoire naturelk d'Autun, for 

 the present year. 



A paper on the life history of Vittaria lineata, by Elizabeth G. 

 Britton and Alexandrina Taylor, forms the concluding number of 

 Vol. VIII of the Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club. 



Descriptions of two new species of fossil algae, of the genus Butho- 

 trephis, from Indiana, are separately issued by David White from the 

 Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 



The fournal of Mycology for October, with portrait of J. C. Arthur 

 as frontispiece, contains the following articles : Morgan, " Notes on 

 North American Fungi " ; Atkinson, - Preliminary Note on Two 

 New Genera of Basidiomycetes " ; Durand, " The Genus Angelina " ; 

 Atkinson, "Preliminary Notes on Some New Species of Fungi"; 

 Kellerman, "Ohio Fungi" (fascicle v) ; Ricker, "Notes on Some 

 West American Fungi" ; Clinton, "North American Ustilaginese " ; 

 Harshberger, " Notes on Fungi"; and Kellerman, "Notes from 

 Mycological Literature, II." 



The first part of the Monographia Uredinearum, by P. and H. 

 Sydow, has been distributed from the Borntraeger press of Leipzig, 

 and is almost entirely occupied with the Puccinias of Composite, of 

 which 298 are described, not a few of them new. 



By a typographical error, a paper on Uredinea:, by Pennington, 

 has been separately issued from the Anales de la Sociedad Cientifci 

 Argentina, Vol. LIII, under a cover reading "Erudineas recolectadns 

 en las islas del delta del Parana." 



Van Bambeke considers the crystalloids of Autobasidiomycetes, in 

 the Bulletin de la classe des sciences, Acadhnie Royale de Belgique, 



An illustration of the need of care in the determination of plants on 

 which morphological studies are made, is given by Rehder in an open 

 letter in the Botanical Gazette for September. 



Volumes II and III of the Archives de /' Institut botanique de V 'Uni- 

 versal de Liege consist of five long papers on plant anatomy. 



A study of the pith diaphragms of dicotyledons, by Magocsy-Dietz. 

 is found in Vol. VII of the Mathematische und Naturwissenschaftliche 

 Berichte aus Ungarn. 



