506 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vol. XXXVII. 



Part 4 of Arthur and Holway's " Descriptions of American Ured- 

 ineae" is published, with line illustrations, in Vol. V, no. 3 of the Bul- 

 letin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University 

 of Iowa, dated in October. It may not be known generally that the 

 exsiccatje of the same authors are further illustrated by excellent 

 photographic representations of the species distributed. 



Tor'reya for January contains : Gleason, «' Notes on Some Southern 

 Illinois Plants " ; Watterson, " Louise Brisbin Dunn Lloyd, " Vaca- 

 tion Observations — III"; Grout, " Leaves of the Skunk Cabbage " ; 

 Murrill, "A New Family of the Basidiomycetes " (Xylophagaceae, 



Quercusrydlnl^v.a"-. and \>,rvy. "Insect Visitors' of Scrophularia 

 kporellar 



The 1902 Bericht der Senckenbergischen Naturforsckenden Gcs di- 

 schaft contains lectures by Mobius on carnivorous plants, Askenasy 



the plant world with reference to recent fossil collections. 



An article on Droseras, in which several species are figured, is 

 published in Die Gartenwelt of January 10th. 



Additional observations on The Strand Flora of New Jersey, by 

 Harshberger, have been separately issued from the Proceedings of the 

 Aeademy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, for October, under date 

 of December 12th. 



Part 16 of J. M. Macoun's "Contributions to Canadian Botany" 

 is published in The Ottawa Naturalist for February. 



ment No. 15, issued by the State Board of Education in 1902. 



A short article on Santo Domingo, by Harshberger. has been 

 reprinted from Education of January. 



Ginseng culture is the subject of Bulletin No. 62 of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Agricultural Fxperiment Station. 



" How to grow a Forest from Seed » is the title of Bulletin No. QJ 

 of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station. 



A well illustrated article on "The Mango in Porto Rico." by G. N. 

 Collins, is published as Bulletin No. 28 of the Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try of the Department of Agriculture. 



