316 
Reviews, 
Annual Report of the State Botanist of the State of New York. 
(48 Regent’s Report.) Charles H. Peck. 4to. Pp. 241. Plates 
A, 1-43. 18096. 
The familiar but unfortunately too rare report of the State 
Botanist appears this time under a new form and as a special sep- 
arate in order to accommodate a part of Professor Peck’s work on 
the Edible Mushrooms of New York. The body of the work con- 
tains the usual report of plants new to the State, including 11 new 
species of Fungi (pp. 11-17), followed by a descriptive synopsis of 
the New York species of Carex, by E. C. Howe (pp. 20-104). But 
the most important portion of the work is the account of «« Edible 
and Poisonous Fungi of New York” (pp. 105-238, 42 plates). 
After some general discussion of the subject there follow detailed 
descriptions of 63 edible species and four that are poison- 
ous or unwholesome. Each species is illustrated with a colored 
plate. The demand for the report has been so great that the lim- 
ited edition was rapidly exhausted. It is to be issued, however, in 
the usual octavo form of the reports of the State Museum and can 
be purchased from the State Librarian at Albany. 
- Mr. Peck’s accuracy of description is too well known to need 
any commendation here. The plates, while rendered by the pro- 
cess of reproduction in a rather stiff form and lack of artistic spirit, 
are recognizable and will readily serve as a guide to the objects 
they represent. The plates of the morels and Fistwlina are prob- 
ably the poorest of the series, but these are fortunately not likely 
to be confused with anything else, In the absence of any work of 
the kind obtainable at a low price—Gibson’s artistic volume being 
beyond the means of many—the present work will prove a real 
help in aiding the rapidly growing number of mycophagists in re- 
cognizing the edible species of woods and fields, and introduce 
the subject to many citizens who ought to know something of the 
valuable food supply that every year goes to waste in prodigious 
quantity. LM, VU. 
Age of the Lower Coals of Henry County, Missouri. David White. 
Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. 8: 287-304. Mr. 1897. 
The correlation of these coals with those of other regions, is 
