No. 434.] 



NOTES AND LITERA TURE. 



Hefts 10 and 1 1 of Kngler's Das Pfanzcmrich consist, respectively, 

 of the Tropaeolaceae, by Buchenau, and the Marantaceee, by Schumann. 



The Plant World for September contains the following principal 

 articles : — Safford, Extracts from the note-book of a naturalist on 

 the Island of Guam ; Pollard, Frank Hall Knowlton ; Cook, A decid- 

 uous tropical tree ; Pammei, Our vanishing wild flowers ; Hill, The 

 etymology of Columbine; Rice, A carnivorous plant; Hopkins, A 

 rare freak of the Trillium ; and Kaufman, A carnivorous bog. 



Rhodora for October contains the following articles : — Fernald, 

 Two northeastern Veronicas ; Graves, Valerianella in New England ; 

 Knowlton, Empetrum in Franklin County, Maine ; Pease, Hieracium 

 praaltum at Andover, Mass., Webster, J. P., Crepis virens in Massa- 

 chusetts ; Shaw, New station for Poly-podium vulgare cambricum ; 

 Bailey, Plant stations in Rhode Island ; Scorgie, Jasionr. montana in 

 Massachusetts; Webster, H., A new mushroom for the market; 

 Deane, Calluna vulgaris in New Hampshire; Rich, Lists of New 

 England plants, IX., Polygonaceae. 



The following articles of botanical interest appear in Vol. 7 of the 

 second series of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 

 recently issued : — Laflamme, Jacques-Philippe Cornuti — Note pour 

 servir a l'histoire des sciences au Canada; Matthew, A backward 

 step in palaeo-botany ; MacKay, Botanical bibliography of Canada, 

 1900. 



A careful analytical account of the flora of the Galapagos Islands, 

 by Dr. Robinson, with the collaboration of specialists, is published as 

 No. 4 of the current volume of Proceedings of the American Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences, and constitutes No. 24, n. s., of the Contribu- 

 tions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. 



No 22 of North American Fauna consists of a report on a biologi- 

 cal investigation of the Hudson Bay region, by E. A. Preble, of 

 some botanical and a great deal of zoological interest. 



In current issues of the Anales del Museo Nacional de Montevideo, 

 Professor Arechavaleta is describing and figuring a considerable 

 number of new phanerogams, many of them belonging to genera 

 which are also represented in North America. 



As No. 6 of the papers issued by the Botanical Seminar of the 

 University of Nebraska on the botanical survey of that state, a thesis 



