162 ERYTHEA. 
KERNER and OLIver’s Natural History of Plants is now 
completed. 
J. G. Lemmon, familiar as a field student of western pines 
and firs, published in July, 1895, a small volume which he 
calls ‘‘ Handbook of West-American Cone-Bearers.’’ Besides 
the systematic arrangement of the species the author com- 
ments on the aspect of the pines and the impression made 
upon the beholder. The Handbook will undoubtedly be of 
good service to those who desire an easy guide to the scien- 
tific and common names of our coniferae. There are a 
number of illustrations of fruiting branches. 
AN annotated list entitled “Flora of Pasadena and 
Vicinity,” of which Professor A. J. McClatchie of the 
Throop Polytechnic Institute is the author, has been sent 
to us in the form of a reprint from a local history. The list 
is unique among local catalogues hitherto published in 
California in that plants of all orders of the vegetable king- 
dom are included—not excepting the most simple forms. 
Typographical errors are rather frequent. The author, who 
has worked zealously on the vegetation of his region, was not 
given opportunity, we judge, to make corrections. 
IT Is announced that Mr. B. Daydon Jackson, Secretary 
of the Linnean Society, so well-known as the compiler of the 
“ Guide to the Literature of Botany and Vegetable Techno- 
logy,” but especially of the “Index Kewensis,” will shortly 
devote his energies to the publication of a new edition of 
Pritzel’s famous “Thesaurus Literaturae Botanicae.”’ 
C. G. Luioyvp of Cincinnati, Ohio, distributed early in 
the year a set of three photographs of American fungi. 
These photographs are very creditable productions showing 
well the characteristic features of the plants. Another set 
(Nos. 4-7) has lately been issued by a photo-gravure pro- 
cess. It is now proposed to reissue as photo-gravures the 
first three plates distributed and eventually furnish text with 
each plate and an index to the whole when completed. 
