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published in Danish, then in French, German and Italian, has finally 
been translated into English by Prof. Trelease with the sanction of 
the author. 
The work is divided into two parts: the first treats of micro- 
chemical agents and their application, with an appendix on cements 
and media for mounting purposes ; and the second gives descrip- 
tions of the vegetable substances and the modes of recognizing them. 
The work is rendered the more valuable by the additions that 
have been made by the translator, and by the numerous references 
to other works that give more detailed information than could be 
crowded into the compass of this. No student of vegetable histology 
can well afford to dispense with this work, and for this reason, and 
on account of its moderate price (one dollar), we predict for it a 
large sale. 
Thirty-third Annual Report of the State Museum of Natural History, 
(Botany.) Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., 1880. 
Thirty-fourth Annual Report of the State Museum of Natural History. 
(Botany.) Albany : Weed, Parsons & Co., 1881. 
From these interesting, but much belated reports of Mr. Peck 
the State Botanist, we learn that during the year 1879 specimens of, 
183 species of plants were mounted and placed in the herbarium, 
none of which was before represented therein. Of plants new to 
the herbarium, collected by the botanist in person and contributed 
by correspondents, the number was 170. Sixty-eight of the latter 
(all fungi) were deemed new to science, and have therefore been 
named and described, and, in some cases, illustrated in the plates 
accompanying the pamphlet. During the year 1880 the number of 
plants new to the herbarium that were mounted and placed therein 
was 167. The number of plants new to the herbarium collected by 
Mr. Peck and contributed by correspondents was 98. Among 
these there were 38 species of fungi that were new to science. To 
his Thirty-third Report Mr. Peck appends an account of the New 
York species of Amanita, in which he has rewritten the descriptions 
and supplemented them with remarks upon the variations of the 
species, their peculiar characteristics and their distinguishing specific 
features. For the benefit of students of fungi, the synonyms 
have to some extent been given and the spore-characters of each 
species added. 
It is to be regretted that the scientific names of the plants (es- 
pecially the new species) enumerated in these Reports were not 
printed in italics in order to make them more easily distinguishable 
from the accompanying text. 
Arctostaphylos : Notes on the United States Pacific Coast Species, 
from recent Observations of living Plants, including a new 
Species {A. oppositifolid) from Lower California. — New 
Plants from Southern and Lower California {Phacelia suffrutes- 
cens, Ptelea aptera^ Polygala Pishice and Gilia Orcutii). By C. 
C. Parry, 8vo, pamph., pp. 10. (From the Proceeding's of Da- 
venport Acad. Nat. Sciences.) 
Notes on the Cryptogamic Flora of the White Mountains. By W. G. 
Taylor. 8vo. pamph., pp, 20. (From Appalachia for December, 
1883.) 
