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Notes.— 77/6- Botanical Gazette, for February, contains the following 

 articles: — Copeland, "Chemical Stimulation and the Evolution of 

 Carbon dioxide"; Sargent, "The Genus Crataegus in Newcastle 

 County, Delaware " ; Long, " The Raveneliasof the United States and 

 Mexico"; Billings, " Chalazogamy in Carya olivaeformis " ; and 

 Cotter, " Selected Notes." 



Rhodora, for February, contains the following articles: Harvey, 

 "An Ecological Excursion to Mt. Ktaadn " ; Sargent, " Recently 

 Recognized Species of Crataegus"; Fernald, " Andromeda polifolia 

 and A. glaucophylla " ; and Knight, "Some plants new to Maine." 



Rhodora, ior March, contains Bacon, "An Experiment with the 

 Red Baneberry"; Cushman, "Desmidsof Bridgewater, Mass. " ; L. 

 O. Eaton, "Orchids of Chesterville, Me. "; Rand, "Observations on 

 Echinodorus parvulus "; Robinson, "Generic position of Echinodorus 

 parvulus " ; and Fernald, " A New Bidens from the Merrimac Valley." 



The Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, for February, contains 

 the following articles: De Vries, "On Atavistic Variation in (Knothcra 

 cruciata"; Clements, "Nova Ascomycetum genera speciesque " ; 

 Peck, "New Species of Fungi"; Hollick, "A Fossil Petal and 

 a Fossil Fruit from the Cretaceous (Dakota Group) of Kansas"; 

 Rowlee, "Notes on Antillean Tines with description of a New Species 

 from the Isle of Pines " ; and Murrill, " Polyporaceae of North America, 

 II, The Genus Polyporus." 



Torreya, for February, contains the following articles : Underwood, 

 "Notes on Southern Ferns, I"; Seymour. " I'nchomanes petersii 

 Found Anew"; Harper, " A Unique Climbing Plant"; Britton, "An 

 undescribed Flleocharis from Pennsylvania '" ; and Earle, " Key to the 

 North American Species of Stropharia." 



Torreya, for March, contains Parish, "Vital Persistency of Agave 

 Americana " ; Earle, " Key to the North American Species of 

 Lentinus, I " ; Ramaley, " Pubescence of Species of Astragalus " ; 

 CockerelL " Insect Visitors of Scrophularia " ; and Hay nes, "Some 

 interesting Hepaticze from Maine." 



Vol. II of the Memoirs of the Neiv York Botanical Garden, issued 



"Influence of Light and Darkness upon Growth and Development." 



Minnesota Botanical Studies, 3d Series, Part 1, issued March 21, 

 1903, contains the following papers: Ramaley, "Observations on 

 Egregia menziesii" ; Butters, "Observations on Trichogkta lubtica" : 



