Floristik und Systematik der Phanerogamen. 187 



Sorte que Taxe de l'embryon est cache au centre de la masse 

 par les deux cotyledons L'axe hypocotyle est droit, il possede ( 

 la tigelle et les cotyledons des poches secretrices; la tigelle seul 



VI J .11 I _ i • C^ I * II » i „I ' L jf 



centre de la masse iormee 



comme 

 .„ „^ _. .-„ _„.^ >_„ , , -- -j^ ile pos- 

 sede des cellules tanniferes. L'albumen n'est plus represente que par 

 une peUicule formee de membranes comprimees. 



Les caracteres de Tembryon, en particulier sa radicule droite et 

 cachee par les cotyledons fönt ranger le Cordyla africana parmi les 

 Ce'salpiniees. C. Queva (Dijon). 



Matsumura, J., Index Plantarum Japonicaruin sive 



Enumeratio Plantarum omnium ex insiilisKurile, 



Yezo, Nippon, Sikoku, Kiusiu, Liukiu etFormosa 



hucusque cognitariim. Vol. I. Cryptogamae. 8°. 



439 pp. 1904. Vol. II. Pars I. Gymnospermae et Mono- 



cotyledonae. (Z. P. Mazuya d', Co. Tokio. 1905. 8". 315 pp.) 



This work may be considered as an enlarged and altered edition 

 of the authors „Shokubutsu Mei-i" or „Enumeration of selected scientific 

 names of both native and foreign plants etc." published in 1895. 

 The plants are classified according to the natural Orders or classes and 

 in each order or class they are arranged alphabetically. Each plant 

 name is furnished with the literature, habitat and Japanese name, while 

 synonymous are found at the end of each volume. It is scarcely ne- 

 cessary to say that the present work is indispensable for those who have 

 to do with Japanese plants. With Part 2, w'hich will appeai shortly, the 

 work is completed. M. Miyoshi. 



MlYOSHl, M., Ecological Beauty of Plants. (Tokio, 

 Fusanbo <& Co. 1903. I vol. in 8«. 209 pp. With 3 Chromo- 

 lithographie Plates, 9 phototype and autotype plates and 41 

 text illustrations. In Japanese.) 



In this book a trial is made to elucidate the aesthetical characters 

 of plants, considered especially from an ecological point of view. It 

 contains the following chapters: 1. General character of plant-beauty. 

 2. Beauty of form. 3. Beauty of structure. 4. Beauty of colour. 5. Ex- 

 cellence of odour. 6. Delicacy of taste. 7. Beauty of plant-landscape. 

 8. Beauty of the association of plants with animals. 9. Beauty of the 

 plant-world with respect to the change of seasons,. weathers and hours. 

 10. Plants in fine arts. M. Miyoshi. 



Rendle, A. B., Classification of Plants. (Journal of 



Botany. Vol. XLIII. No. 516. December 1905. p. 344 350.) 



This a brief, interesting sketch of the history of the Classification of 

 plants and the gradual evolution of a more or less natural System, based 

 on an exhibition of old books in the Natural History Museum^ London. 

 The first mentioned is Dioscorides „Materia Medica" ; the Ortus Sanitatis 

 shows the low State of the study of Natural History in the Middle Ages, 

 whilst 0. Brunfels „Herbarium" and other herbals mark a new era. 

 William Turner is the father of English Botany, whose „Libellus de 

 Re Herbaria Novus" appeared in 1538. The author proceeds to consider 

 a number of other herbals and to gradually follow up the Systems of 

 Classification to John Ray and further to Jussieu, Rob. Brown, 

 Bentham and Hooker^ Eichler and finally reaches modern syste- 

 matic views (Van Tieghem, Hallier). A number of critical remarks 

 on H al lie r's System are made, especially regarding the inclusion of Viola- 

 ceae, Balsa/ninaceae and Compositae in oiie series (Pa s s if 1 o r a 1 e s) and 

 the removal of the Convolvulaceae from the Tubiflorae to the E b e n a 1 e s. 



F. E. Fritsch. 



