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Droseras, Sarracenias, Pinguiculas, and Utricularias represent the 

 insectivorous plants. 



Plant Distribution of Alabama. — This is divided first into the 

 Carolinian and Louisianian floras, and these are subdivided into various 

 regions : as mountain, tablelands, Tennessee Valley, Lower Hill country, 

 ivc. In each of these lists as well as individual plants characteristic of 

 them are given. — G. H, 



Allamanda cathartiea, L. (Gartenflora, p. 169, pi. 1497; 1/3/1902). 

 A short description and coloured plate of this hothouse climber. 

 The flowers are golden yellow, and the plants begin to bloom when 

 three years old. — J. P. 



Alpine House at Kew, The. By W. Irving (Garden, No. 1580, 

 p. 130 ; 1 3 1902). — Early in the year, and in spite of the severe weather, 

 this house contains many interesting and beautiful plants in flower, and 

 in these notes the principal ones growing are described. An illustration is 

 also given of the plants in flower in the house in February. — E. T. C. 



Alsine validus, n. sp. By L. N. Goodding (Bot. Gaz. xxxiii. No. 1, 



p. 69). — This is separated from its nearest ally, A. longipes, by the many 

 flowered cyme, wide-spreading pedicels, &c. — G. H. 



Amaryiiids, Three Fine. By G. Bornemann (Die Gart. p. 184 ; 

 l.s 1 1902 ; with illustrations). — Crinuni yemense and HymenocalUs 

 caribcea, also Hcemanthus 1 Konig Albert,' are illustrated and well 

 recommended. — G. 11. 



Ammoniacal Manures : Their Use on Calcareous Soils. By 



E. Giustiniani {Ann. Ayr. pp. 462-486; October 1901).— C. H. H. 



Amphicarpsea monoica, Recent Observations on. By Adeline 



Frances Schively, Ph.D. (Contr. Bot. Lab. Phil. vol. ii. No. 1, p. 20).— A 

 continuation of a previous paper in the same publication detailing results 

 of experiments on legumes and seeds of this species, showing variations 

 produced by external conditions in legumes and seeds both of the aerial 

 and subterranean type ; and of a white variety observed in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Strafford Station, Pa. — M. C. C. 



Angraecum Eichlerianum. By Sir J. D. Hooker (Bot. Mag. tab. 

 7813).— Nat. ord. Orchidece, tribe Vaudcce. Native of Calaban. The 

 sepals and upper petals are green, the broad and pointed lip being white 

 with a yellowish-green colour within. It is 3 inches from the tip of 

 the dorsal sepal to that of the lip, the spur being one inch in length, 

 spindle-shaped, and green.— G. H. 



Angraecum Scottianum, Hchb. f. (Oogniaux in Diet. Icon. Orch. 

 AngraBCum, pL 7 ; 2 1902).— Introduced by John Kirk in 1878 from the 

 island of Johanna. Flowers small, white with pale red spur. — C. C. H. 



Antirrhinum anthracnose on Yellow Toad-Flax. By F. C. 



Bfcewarl and II. Eustace (U.S.A. Exp. Stn. New York, Bull. 200, 



