Journal of Applied Microscopy. 643 



CURRENT BOTANICAL LITERATURE. 



Charles J. Chamberlain. 



Books for review and separates of papers on botanical subjects should be sent to 



Charles J. Chamberlain, University of Chicago, 



Chicago, 111. 



REVIEWS. 



Underwood, Luciea M. Moulds, Mildews, and Probably there are but few teachers of 

 Mushrooms : a guide to the systematic study i , • i • ^-^ ,• i 



of the Fungi and Mycetozoa and their liter- botany in Our larger institutions who 



ature. 8vo. pp. V+236, 10 plates. Henry have not been called upon to recom- 

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^^ mend some book which would enable 



the inquirer to identify the common fungi, but the answer has necessarily been 

 that there was no book in English covering this ground. Consequently, the 

 present work cannot fail to be welcomed by teachers and students alike. Of 

 course, all the fungi could not be treated within a reasonable space, and so the 

 author has selected the more conspicuous fleshy and woody fungi, the cup fungi, 

 and genera containing parasitic species. The headings of the chapters will 

 give an idea af the scope of the work. They are : (1) Introductory. (2) Rela- 

 tions of Fungi to Other Plants. (3) Reproduction, Constituents, and Habits, 

 (4) Phycomycetes. (5) Ascomycetes. (6) Fungi Imperfecta (7) The Lower 

 Basidiomycetes. (8) The Higher Basidiomycetes. (9) Myxomycetes. (10) 

 The Study of Mycology in General, and its Study in America in Particular. 

 (11) Geographic Distribution of American Fungi. (12) Methods of Collection 

 and Preservation of Fungi. Hints for further study. There are indices 

 to Latin names, host plants, authors and collectors, and also a general 

 index and explanation of terms. 



The keys are clear and will enable the average student to determine the 

 genera. There are also descriptions of species for the edible and the poisonous 

 forms. In arrangement the writer has followed Die natiirlichen Pflanzenfaniilien 

 but with some change in the sequence of groups. The names of orders and 

 families conform to the system proposed at Berlin. 



The book can be most heartily recommended not only to the epicure who 

 desires to eat with confidence, but also to the busy teacher and student who feel 

 the need of a ready means for identifying the common fungi. 



c. J. c. 



n . „ „ . , ,.„ c c TVT 1. , The fact that the large edition of their 



Rusby, Henry n., and Jeliffe, S. E. Morphology ° 



and Histology of Plants ; designed especially Essentials of Phartnacognosy, which the 

 as a guide to plant analysis and classifica- present book replaces, was SO soon 

 tion, and as an mtroduction to Pharmacog- ^ "^ 



no^y and Vegetable Physiology. Svo., pp. XI exhausted, has shown a demand for a 

 +378, 693 illustrations. Published by the ^^^^ ^f ^^jg kind, and has encouraged 

 authors.. New vork., 1899. ° 



the authors to publish a more com- 

 prehensive text. The present volume includes all the subject matter 

 of the Essentials^ and also a large amount of more general information. The 

 topics of the previous book have been treated with more completeness, and there 

 have been added chapters on floral dissection and analysis, descriptions of 



