PRN tar eeeres os 3 ity eee 
er Motes . 
1904] CURRENT LITERATURE 393 
improve upon Schimper’s thought or diction; very few liberties indeed are 
taken. In isolated cases the text might be clearer to American readers, if 
other renderings were used. For example, it may be doubted if guz/d is the 
best equivalent of Genossenschaft, or elfin-tree of Krummholz. The reviewer 
sees no objection to retaining the word Avummho/z in English until an equiv- 
alent appears. 
The presswork is admirable; even the illustrations seem to be quite equal 
to those of the original. Both the original and the translation are large and 
bulky volumes, and it would seem that the advantages of a two-volume edi- 
realized, viz., that this work will have as great an influence upon current 
botanical movements as was exerted by the translation of Sachs's 7ext-book of 
Botany thirty years ago.— HENRY C, COWLES. 
Paleobotany. 
The modern morphologist is always anxious to secure some definite 
information concerning paleobotanical material and welcomes every new pub- 
lication that promises to be helpful. Flahault’ has just published a résumé 
of certain paleobotanical conferences he has been in the habit of holding 
with students at Montpellier, as a preliminary to work with living plants. It 
is really a brief and simple account of our knowledge of fossil plants and of 
their relation to modern vegetation. The curious autolithographic prepara- 
tion of the book, including illustrations, gives to it almost the flavor of a long 
personal letter. The seven chapters deal with the following subjects: (1) 
Introductory remarks; (Il) Thallophytes; (III) Bryophytes, Characeae, 
Pteridophytes, and groups of doubtful affinity ; (IV ) Phanerogamie plants— 
Gymnosperms; (V) Angiosperms; (VI) Differentiation of climates; suc- 
cessive constitution of floras; (VII) General results and conclusions. 
The book will doubtless be of great service in many laboratories where a 
brief and clear account of the paleobotanical evidence is much needed.— 
-M.C 
: MINOR NOTICES. 
Dr. JANET PERKINS® has begun a series of publications devoted to the 
investigation of the flora of the Philippine Islands. The author’s work is 
based upon the old and new collections belonging to the Berlin Museum, and 
other collections that the Museum has been able to call in; and she has also 
secured special monographers as collaborators. The first fascicle is chiefly 
SFLAH au , La paléobotanique dans ses ra ports avec la wegetation 
actuelle. Autolithograph, pp. 217. Paris: Paul Klincksieck, 3 rue Corneille. 
-50. 
6 PERKINS, JANET, Fragmenta florae Philippinae. Contributions to the flora of 
the Philippine Islands. Fascictlus I. pp. 1-66. Leipzig : Gebriider Borntraeger. 
Igo4, M4 
