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Index to Recent Literature Relating to American Botany. 
Apical Growth of Liverworts.—Notes on the. D. M. Mottier. 
(Bot. Gaz., xvi. 141-143, pl. xii). 
The following species are figured as examples: Marchantia 
: polymorpha, Asterella hemispherica, clieacue iegsion conicus, Antho- 
ceros levis and Onoclea Struthiopteris. 
Botany of Jackson Co. [Mo.|—Report on the. B. F. Bush. 
(Thirty-first Ann. Rept. State Hort. Soc., Mo., 370-372). 
This is a supplementary list to those previously published, 
and raises the number of uncultivated species known in the 
county to 1,004. The author should not designate it a list of 
plants ‘‘ native” to the county, however, as a large number of the 
species are the usual naturalized foreigners. The large number 
of typographical errors shows evidence of very careless proof- 
reading. 
Bromeliacee Schimperiane. 1. Wittmack. (Beiblatt, Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. No. 29, 1-7). 
A list of twenty-two species collected by Dr. W. Schimper 
in southern Brazil. Szlbergia Schimperiana and Aichmea gamo- 
sepala are described as new. : 
California Trees and Flowers. C. R. Orcutt. (West Am. Sci- 
entist, vil. 93-99; 123-133; 144-152; illustrated), 
An alphabetical list designed to give brief descriptions of 
species which have been introduced into cultivation, or consid- 
ered worthy of it. The list begins with Adzes dracteata and ends 
with Zygadenus Fremonti. 
Coca and tts Therapeutic Application. Angelo Mariani. (Pamph. 
pp. 88, illustrated. New York, J. N. Jaros). 
An interesting and freely illustrated account of Erythroxylon 
Coca, Lam., and the application of its leaves in medical treatment. 
Continuity of the Protoplasm in the Chantransia Form of Bat- 
rachospermum. B. M. Davis. (Bot. anid Xvi. 149, with 
figure). 
Enumeratio Plantarum Guatemalensium, Pars II. deine Donnell 
Smith, (8vo, pp. 99, Oquawka, 1891). 
This is a further enumeration of plants collected in Guatemala 
by Capt. John Donnell Smith and Baron H. de Tuerckheim, to-. 
