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The Plant World for December, with a portrait of F. H. Knowlton 

 as frontispiece, contains the following articles : — Niles, "Origin of 



Preservation of our Wild Flowei, Shrubs and Trees"; Williams, 

 "Where Lichens grow "; Knowlton, " Fossil Mosses " ; and Pollard, 

 " Cocoanuts in Cuba." As a supplement to this number, — the title 

 page, etc., of Mr. Pollard's The Families of Flowering Plants. 



Rhodora for January contains the following articles : — Collins, 



bury, Ct."; Knowlton, " Flora of Mt. Saddleback, Me."; Leavitt, 

 "Outgrowths on the Leaf of Aristolochia " ; Pease, " Erodium mala- 

 coides at Lawrence, Mass. " ; Bissell, " Lycopodium clavatum and its 

 variety " ; and Graves, " Sehwalbea Americana in Ct." 



An article on "The Functional Inertia of Plant Protoplasm," by 

 Robertson, is published in Vol. Ill, No. 3, of the Proceedings of the 

 Scottish Microscopical Society. 



" Plant Physiology for the High School," by Ganong. and " High 

 School botany," by Syndam, are articles in School Science iox February. 



A fossil flora of the John Day P.asin. Oregon, constitutes Bulletin 

 No. 204 of the U. S. Geological Survey. 



From the structure of their seedlings, Miss Sargant argues, in the 

 Annals of Botany for January, that the monocotyledons are deriva- 



The anatomy of Macrozamia heteromcra is written on by Agnes 

 Robertson in Vol. XII, part 1 of the Proceedings of the Cambridge 

 Philosophical Society. 



In No. 8 and 9 of the Pharmaceutical Archives for 1902, Per- 

 re'des and Power respectively discuss the anatomy and the chem- 

 istry of Derris uliginosa — zn Eastern fish poison; No. 1 of The 

 Pharmaceutical Archives for 1903, also, containing the conclusion of 

 Dr. Power's paper. 



cultivated " Chrysanthemums," is figured, accompanied by a note by 

 Sir Joseph Hooker, in Curtis s Botanical Magazine for January. 



of an illustrated article by Marrion Wilcox, in The Worlds Work iox 

 February. 



