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uscript was prepared, shortly before his death, by Micheli, whose 

 portrait forms a frontispiece to the paper. 



A short note on New Brunswick violets, by Vroom, is printed in no. 

 XXI of the Bulletin of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick. 



A critical revision of the genus Eucalyptus, by J. H. Maiden, 

 Government Botanist of New South Wales, is in course of publica- 

 tion at Sydney. The first part, comprising 47 pages of text and 4 

 plates, bears date of January, 1903, at end of the preface. 



"A research on the Eucalypts, especially in regard to their essen- 

 tial oils," by Baker and Smith, is published from the Technological 

 Museum of New South Wales, as No. .13 of the Technical Education 

 Series of its publications. 



A revision of Sebaea, § Eusebaea, by Schinz, is distributed from 

 the Mittheilungen der geographischen Gesellschaft in Liibeck, Heft 17, 

 1903. 



An analysis of the relationships of the vernal group of Primula, 

 comprising the oxlip, cowslip and primrose of England, by Bailey, 

 is printed in The Journal of Botany for May. 



Betula papyrifera is figured in Vol. IV, no. 1, of the Icones Selectee 

 Horti Thenensis, published by M. Leon van den Bossche of Tirlemont. 

 Belgium ; — one of the most accurate and attractive of current works 

 devoted to the illustration of the higher plants. 



A catalogue of the Mosses of Australia and Tasmania, by White- 

 legge has been started, the first part appearing as a supplement to 

 no. 107 of the Proceedings of the Linncan Society of New South Wales. 



cussed by F. R. Rowley in an illustrated paper in The Journal of the 

 Quekett Microscopical Club for April. 



"red rot" of the western yellow pine.— caused respectively by 



von Schrenk as Bulletin no. 36 of the Bureau of Plait Industry of 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



The synonymy of Gloecsporium fructigenum is discussed by von 

 Schrenk and Spaulding in Science for May 8. 



