No. 438] .VOTES AND LITERA TURE. 



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Holtz, " Observations on Pelvetia " ; Hone, " Petalonema alatum 

 Minn."; N. B. P. Nelson, "Observations upon some Alga whu 

 cause 'Water Bloom'"; Hillesheim, "Some Observations on tl 

 Staining of the Nuclei of Fresh-water Alga; " ; Crosby, " Observatior 

 on Dictyosphaeria " ; Brand, Stapfia cylindrica in Minn.": Powe 

 " Observations on some Calcareous Pebbles " ; " Lilley, Nitella batr 

 chosperma in Minn. " ; and Wheeler, " Catalog of Minnesota Grasses 



The Bulletin of the Southern California Aeademy of Sciences, < 

 February i, contains the following botanical articles : Hasse, u Coi 

 tributions to the Lichen-flora of the California Coast Islands" 

 Parish, "Two New Plants from Southern California " ; and Davidsoi 

 " New Records for Los Angeles County." 



Professors Aven Nelson and Cockerell have described several ne- 



Biological Society of Washington, which also contain a revision c 



Bailey's Queensland Flora has reached Part VI,- Alismacea; t 

 Filices, — which concludes the work, making a volume of 2015 page< 

 in addition to separately passed prefatory matter. It is illustrated b 

 88 plates. 



No. 8 of Koorder's and Valeton's Additamenta ad Cognitionen 

 Florae Arborese Javanicaj, issued as Mededeelingcn uit i's Land 

 Plantentuin, No. LIX. deals with Rubiacea? and Oleaceae. 



Illustrated accounts of Sisal or henequen fiber, as produced in 

 ucatan, are given in Advance Sheets of Consular Reports No. 15&2, 

 e National Geographic Magazine for April, and The American 

 wentor for May 1, all by Consul E. H. Thompson, of Progress. 



Further studies on the Root-tubercles of Leguminosa,- and their 

 usation are published by Hiltner and Stormer, as Heft 3 of the 

 ird volume of Arbeiten au. der Biologischen \htli Hung fiir Land- 

 id Forst-Wirthschaft am Kaiserlichcn Gcsundheitsamte. 



John Crerar Library. 



ographies of special subjects, among which botany finds place. 



