No 440.] 



NOTES AND LITERATURE. 



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The Botanische Zeitung of April 16 is occupied by an analysis of 

 recent hybridization literature, by Correns, who also contributes two 

 papers on the same subject to the Berichte der Deutschen Botanischcn 

 Gesellschaft of April 23. 



Professor Fernow has an article on "applied ecology" in Science - of 

 April 17. 



"New Hampshire WildHowers" is the title of Nature Study 

 Leaflet No. 4 of the New Hampshire College Experiment Station, bv 

 Professor Weed. 



An account of a biological reconnoissance in the vicinity of Flat- 

 head Lake, by M. J. Elrod, is published as No. 10 of the Bulletin of 

 the University of Montana — No. 3 of the biological series. 



Professor Ganong contributes a preliminary synopsis of the group- 

 ing of the vegetation (phytogeography) of the Province of New 

 Brunswick to No. XXI of the Bulletin of the Natural History Society 

 of New Brunswick. 



A list of plants from Labrador, by Mackay, is contained in the 

 Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science. 

 Vol. X, part 4, issued in March. 



An account of the vegetation of one of the Amazon districts, by 

 Huber, is published in the December number of the Boletim do 

 Museu Baraense, and includes 189 entries. The article is followed 

 by an account by the same author of the physical geography of the 

 region, the " Furos de Breves" or communications between the 

 Amazon and the Para. 



With the third fascicle, issued under date of January. 1903. De 

 Wildeman's FLtudes sur la flore du Katanga, constituting "Series IV 

 — Botanique " of the Annates du Musee du Congo, is completed. The 

 work forms a folio volume of xii + 241 pages, and 46 plates. 



A monograph of Cardamine, by Schulz, has recently been published 



Under the title " Leguminosce Langlasseance " the Societe de 

 Physique et d' Histoire Naturelle de Geneve has published, as Volume 

 XXXIV. Fascicle 3, of its M^moires, a beautifully illustrated account 

 of certain Leguminosae collected in 1898 and 1899 by Langlasse' 

 through the Mexican states of Michoacan and Guerrero. The man- 



