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The Ohio Naturalist for December contains the following botani- 

 cal articles : — Schaffner, Observations on self-pruning and the for- 

 mation of cleavage plains ; Schaffner, The flora of Little Chicken 

 Island ; Burr, Compass plants of Ohio ; and Simkins, Record of 

 observations on the dandelion. 



The Plant World for November contains the following articles : — 

 Longenecker, Mushrooms; Niles, Origin of plant names; King, a 

 summer outing in Iowa; Harvey, The dwarf Mistletoe at Mount 

 Ktaadn ; Pammel, An old sphagnum bog in La Crosse county, Wis- 

 consin ; and, in the supplement, pages 247-253 of Mr. Pollard's The 

 families of flowering plants. 



The Plant World for January contains the following articles: — 

 Waters, " Obtusilobata " forms of some ferns; Messenger, The pres- 

 ervation of our native plants; Collins, Dimorphism in the shoots of 

 the Ginkgo. 



Rhodora for December contains the following articles : — Fernald, 

 Variations of American Cranberries; Andrews, Bryophytes of the 

 Mt. Greylock region, II ; Deane, Remarkable persistence of the 

 button-bush; Floyd, Cristate form of Nephroditim marginale\ 

 Cheney, Rare plants in Centreville, Mass.: Jewell, Some ferns of 

 Franklin County, Me.; Gutterson, Cuphea procumbent at Andover, 

 Mass.; Clark, Erodium mcschatum in Connecticut ; Mann, An Amer- 

 ican occurrence of Centaurea diffusa ; Pease, Two new stations for 



Torreya for December contains the following articles : — Lloyd, 

 Vacation observations, II; Farle, Key to the North American spe- 



pratense. 



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