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mofskya tsugensis by Kosendahl in Minnesota Botanical Studies of 

 J u iy 3, 1903- 



A brief economic article on Agaves, by Nelson, is reprinted from 

 the Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture for 1902. 



Guerin publishes, in the Journal J Agriculture Tropicale of June 

 30, an interesting account of the oil palms of Guatemala known as 

 Corozos, those of the Atlantic slope referred to Attalea cohune and 

 those of the Pacific slope to Elceis melanoearpa. 



An account of Japanese bamboos and their introduction into 

 America, well illustrated from photographs, is published by Fairchild 

 as Bulletin 43 of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture. 



A morphological and anatomical study of a hybrid of Agiopyrum 

 violaceum and Elymus arenarius, by Galloe, is published in Botanisk 

 Tidsskrift, Volume 25, Heft 2. 



No. 19 of Holm's "Studies in the Cyperacea;," dealing with the 

 genus Carex in Colorado, is published in the American Journal «f 

 Science for July. 



Biographic sketches of Bescherelle, giving a list of his publications, 

 are contained in No. 3-+ of the current volume of Bulletin de la 

 Societe Botanique de France. 



A short biographical sketch of Micheli, with protrait, is published 

 in No. 85 of the Actes de la Societe Helvetique des Sciences Naturelles. 



