Notes Source: The American Naturalist, Vol. 37, No. 435 (Mar., 1903), pp. 216-221 Published by: The University of Chicago Press for The American Society of Naturalists Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2455347 . Accessed: 21/05/2014 09:52 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . The University of Chicago Press and The American Society of Naturalists are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The American Naturalist. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 195.78.109.26 on Wed, 21 May 2014 09:52:27 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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NotesSource: The American Naturalist, Vol. 37, No. 435 (Mar., 1903), pp. 216-221Published by: The University of Chicago Press for The American Society of NaturalistsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2455347 .
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Protozoa and also contain data of general interest, the latter for
example would have provided some connecting links between the Mastigpophora ancld Ciliat for the cliscuLssion of the inter-relationships of these groups. This book should help materially in stimulating and fostering the study of this most interesting group by American students by whoom it has been much neglected during the past decade.
BOTANY.
Notes.- The Procedb4dng of the Pittsburgh meeting of the Soc/c/i'
for Ilie Promnotwito of Agrv-icultuiral &,-ience include the following botan i- cal papers: Bessey, Notes on the poisonous plants of Nebrask-a Voorhees and Lipmans, Incliviciduality of plants an important factor in plant nutrition studies Arthur, The zEcidiUm as a device to restore vigor to the fungus; Lyon, The importance of considering
previous environment in condclCtinig variety tests; Bolley, Preliminary efforts to develop a continuous process of seed disinfection by means of formaldehyde vapor Bolley, Use of the centrifuge ini diagnosing plant diseases Beal, Observations by the roadside kane, Plant cdepredations and plant culture; Weems and Hess, Study of the food value of some of the edible funngi of Ames [Ia.j; Chester, IBacterio- logical analysis of soils; and Lazenby, Some notes on the water con- tent of certain plants.
The Bota;,ical Gaz-ete for December contains the following articles Frye, A mi-orphological study of certain Asclepiacdacet; Leavitt,
The root-hairs, cap, and sheath of A zolla Stevens, Studies in the fertilization of Phyconmycetes; Berry, Notes on Sassafras; Fairchild, A date-leaf boat of Arabia; and Cockerell, A variable larkspur.
The Blletfin (f dhe Tor-rey! Botanicila Cblb, for Decemlber, contains the following articles: - Cannon, A cytological basis for the Mende- lian laws; Vail, Notes on the genus Rouliniella; Unclervood, Review *of the gentus Danxea; Rydlberg, Studies on the Rocky Mountain Flora, IX; Rusby, Enumeration of the plants collected by D)r. H. H. Rusby in South America, I885-6, XXXII; and Knowlton, Report on a small collection of fossil plants fromi the vicinity of Porcupine Butte, Montana.
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The 0/tio Nathilwisi for December contains the following botani-
cal articles: -Schaff ner, Observations on self-pruning and the for- mation of cleavage plains; Schaffner, The flora of Little Chicken
Island; Burr, Compass plants of Ohio; and Simkins., Record of observations on the dandelion.
The P/lat Worldk for November contains the following articles: Longe decker, Mushrooms; Niles, Origin of plant names; King, a summer outing in Iowa; Harvey, The dwarf Mistletoe at Mount Ktaacln; Pamnmie], An old sphagnum bog in La Crosse county, Wis- COnsin ; and, in the supplement, pages 247-253 of Mr. Pollard's The families of flowering plants.
The Praldt Wlorl for January contains the following articles: Waters, " Obtusilobata " forms of some ferns; Messenger, The pres- ervation of our native plants Collins, Dim-orphism in the shoots of the Ginkgo.
R/odloraw for December contains the following articles Fernald, Variations of American Cranberries; Andrews, Bryophytes of the Mt. Greylock region, II; Deane, Remarkable persistence of the button-bush; Floyd, Cristate form of lVA7/hi-odbium; wag-liale; Cheney, Rare plants in Centreville, Mass.; Jewell, Some ferns of Franklin County, Me.; Gutters on, Citpicca pioc(//flbefls at Andover, Mass.; Clark, El-odhiumi mesc'alszui in Connecticut; Mann, An Amer- ican occurrence of Cinltaicdi-e tfilS; Pease, Two new stations for Arceuthobium and Bissell, Some species of Crepis and Leontodon.
Tol-l-ci'a for December contains the following articles: Lloyd, Vacation observations, II; Earle, Key to the North American spe- cies of Cortinarius, II; and WVhite, Petiolate conmation in )i-foiuimi
,-altense.
The 9th volume of the Pl-occdzliligs of 1/hc Iodoa Acadeiy 01 Sciewnces contains the following articles of botanical interest: Shimek, Forestry in Iowa; Panmmel and King, Vascular cryptogams of Iowa and adjoining parts of southeastern Minnesota and western Wiscon- sin; Pammel, Preliminary notes on the flora of western Iowa, especially from the physiog-ra-phical ecological standpoint; Hitch- cock, A list of plants collected in Lee County, Florida; and, Hlume, Ustalao-inev of Iowa.
Like earlier-'parts, no. io6 of the Proceedfiiszgs (fj 1/e Licwal Societv of IVezu Sodl/i Wlfldles contains a number of botanical articles.
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Papers on CYaraZifins/a o -c//iO7sCC/5s by Lehmianin, derithrifying bacteria--by Baur, and the strUcture of Bcg/iato(a wi-zlnlbilis -by
Hinze, are contained in the Kiel AbtheilunTg of n. F. VI, of the
"Wissenschaftlicle M/leeresuntersuchutngen " of the Xommissiont zur 7eiiSCIISclaft~lichen (Jetci-sucli un,-re, (tb- e/ld/sc/zen AJiccI-c.
The concluding part (no. 3-6) of Vol. XVI of the Alnna/es (les
Sc&zcnces Na/ni-el/cs, Bo/aniquilc, issued in December, consists of an
extended discussion of the Ochnaceez by Vanl Tieghyein.
A paper on Drosera, by Heinricber, is contained in the Zci/sc/lz-vft dies Fer(diman(leuns fir- TI>l nd [orar/br fa-r 1902.
A note on Melocactus seedlings, l)Y Suringr, is contained in the
Br-ic/zcf (/cr/- Dc/sch/cn Bo/anisc/zcn Gecscllsc/a /Q of Decem-1ber 23.
An account of the " ayotli," or native gourdcs, of Mexico, by
Urbina, is in course of publication in tbe Anales (del Ansco Na(cioaoneli
(d Mixico; beginning with the issue of December.
A habit-photogram of a fine American Elm is contained in Couiintiiy Lje in. Almiericai for January.
A largely illustrated paper on the morphology and ecology of the Indian Plodo-stemaceai, by Dr. Willis, director of the garden, consti- tutes part 4 of Vol. I of the 4nialsv of t/e R-oyal Botlanic Gard(enzs, Pcr-adcnip'a.
An interesting account of tbe tuberiferous Coleus coppi'lii, by Heckel, is contained in fascicle 2 of the Annales cle lInistitut Golol/io/l
(/c M(rseile, Vol. VIII.
An illustrated account of Carludov/ica J.amaicencsis, by Fawcett and Harris, is published in tbe October number of the Bulletin of the Botanical :Dcpazncnt, Jamaica.
Notices of the Elephant's trunk Banana, fiusa 7wi/souil, with illus-
trations, appear in the Gazrdcn-ec-s Chronicle for Decemnber 20 and 27.
Bro(di(ea bicolor is described by Suksdorf in The Ucst America7n Scientlist for December.
School Sc/izicc for January contains an article on Tbe cocoanut its composition and germination, by Kirkwoocd.
A phylogenetic study of Ginlgo, Cephalotaxus, and tbe Taxacec, by v7on Spiess, is appearing in current numbers of the (Estei/elzi11schre Botan/iscze Zeitscu-iflt.
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Reiche's " Flora cle Chile," publish ecd at Santiago, has reached the third volume, devoted to Cunoniacere to Compositx-in-part.
"Flora of New Providence and Ancdros (Balhamia Islands)" is the
title of a paper by Mrs. A. R. Northrop, Nwlhich forms the opening number of Vol. XII of the Alco'milOs of i/hc fol'rrev Bolanictal Club, issued Decemiber ioth.
In a thesis on " Die Steliir-Theorie,"' pUblished at Groningen in 1902, Schonte reaches the conclusion that but a single stelar type "Monostelie " occurs in the stem and root of vascular plants.
A study of style and stigma in the Cruciferx-, by Villani, is con- tained in M aiig/ila, Vol. XVI fascicle 5-7.
Recent numbers of the Bullel t!, di Jius'ua;in d'Iiisioir'lc _ZA/l1/-ed/e,
of Paris, contain a co nsiclerable number of morphologico-systematic papers by Van Tieghem.
Plant physiology in the high school is the subject of a paper by Professor Barnes in Sch/ool Sc1i`1ce for i)ecember.
The use of bacteria in studying photosynthesis is discussed by Beijerinck in Vol. IV of the Proceedings of the Section of Sciences of the K. kaldemide vat btieienscha/4es le JllAs/ci-dlam, in \vhich Burck writes on the irritable stigmas of Torenia and Mimulus, and on means to prevent the germination of foreign pollen on the stigma.
Guignard contributes a paper on the double fertilization of Cruci- ferce to the Joai-nal de Botan'iquc for November, which also contains the results of an anatomical study of MenispermaceT, by Maheu.
A paper on neo-Lamarchian views as to organic evolution, by von Wettstein, is separately issued from the 1902 Vel-ba5(ndlunget tic/r
A Plea for hardy plants, with suggestions for their effective arrangement, by J. Wilkinson Elliott, has been reprinted from the Ti-ralsactions (f t/h Massac/iusetts horticultzCdur-al Societye for I895, with additional plans and copious and exquisite illustrations by J. Horace McFarland and others, and issued from the press of Doubleday, Page & Co.
A delightfully entertaining little book on Children's Gardens, by the Honorable Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, better known under her maiden namie of Alicia Amherst, has been published by the Macmillans.
A sketch of the life and labors of Sir William Hooker, with por- trait, is begun by his son, Sir Joseph Hooker, in the AnnIals of Botlany for December.
A portrait of Schumann forms the frontispiece to the December number of the Mociatssc/uiftlfiir- Afakteelkuulide.
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