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Rhodora, for May, contains the following articles : — Collins, 

 "Lorin Lowe Dame"; Blankinship, "Plant formations of eastern 



— III"; Bissell. " Aju :< a Genevo'ms in New England"; Fernfld, 

 " Red-Howered Anemone riparia " ; and Robinson, " Viola arvensis 

 in New England." 



Torreya, for April, contains the following articles : — House, 

 "Notes upon the orchids of central New York"; Ross, " Vagaries 

 of Hepatica " ; Earle, " Key to the North American species of Len- 

 tinus — II " ; and King, " Explosive discharge of antherozoids in 



Torreya, for May, contains the following : — Harshberger, " Notes 

 on the strand flora of Great Inagua, Haiti and Jamaica " ; Curtis, 

 "Observations on etiolation"; and Berry, " A triple samara in Acer 



Part 2 of Trees and Shrubs, issued from the Riverside Press of 

 Cambridge, like its predecessor contains illustrations and descriptions 

 of a number of species of the now popular genus Crataegus, as well 

 as of other genera of interest. 



In the Bulletin de P Herbier Boissier, Dr. Hallier has recently pub- 

 lished a preliminary scheme for a new phylogenetic classification of 

 the flowering plants. Dr. Engler, in the new edition of his Syllabus, 

 also considerably modifies his previous treatment of the larger groups. 



A practical application of the various ways of treating botanical 

 nomenclature is given by Hitchcock, apropos of Festuca spicata, 

 Pursh, in Science, for May 22, 1903. 



An important, though not lengthy, paper by Van Tieghem, on the 

 structure of the stamen in Scrophulariaceae, is contained in No. 8 of 

 the Bulletin du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, for 1902. 



The Morphological propriety of designating stamens and pistils 

 sexual organs, is discussed by Ganong in Science of April 24, and 

 MacMillan in the same journal for May 15. 



Cotyledonary studies of Pinus maritima, by Chauveaud, are pub- 

 lished in No. 7 of the Bulletin du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, for 



Ramaley has a note on the cotyledons and leaves of certain 

 Papilionaceae, in No. 3 of The University of Colorado Studies. 



