NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS ON FOREIGN VEGETATION.

The article provides an overview of various publications on foreign vegetation. The Finnish Forest Survey deals with the results of estimations of the forest vegetation, tree production and soil character, along 39 survey lines. The paper "The Plant Formations on the Coral Reefs Along the Northern Coast of Cuba," by J. C. Th. Uphof in the "American Journal of Botany," found that the reefs form masses of stone near the shore or at some distance out. The principal vegetation types occurring west of the hundredth meridian are enumerated in "Types of Vegetation in the Semiarid Portion of the United States and Their Economic Significance," by A. E. Aldous and H. L. Shantz in the "Journal of Agricultural Research."