46 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ Feb. 
campyx in the text and Leucocampyx in the index. The use of a single para- 
graph for genus and species both, when there is but one of the latter, mars the 
t 
this want of uniformity does not run throughout the volume after it was started. 
ompare Anaphalis with Melampodium. 
ymnosperme are placed where they should be —after the Monocotyledons. 
Abolition of the Spadiceous, Petaloideous and Glumaceous Divisions in the 
is good ; as one is no longer called upon to apologize, before pupils, for 
the appearance of Juncus in the second and its absence from the third of these 
groups. : oy 
There is, we think, a serious oversight in failing to give an artificial key 
to the Tubuliflore in Composite. e order is, in general, considered by stu- 
Manual these difficulties vanish after a few lessons. True such keys do not 
teach affinities, but they are very likely to lead to a desire to know more about 
them. 
Prof. Coulter deserves not only the gratitude of his botanical brethren, but 
also that more substantial recognition from educators which results in prompt 
and large sales of needed and meritorious books. The call for a new edition 
can only be a matter of a short time. “i OTHROCK, 
Zur Morphologie und Biologie der Niederen Pilethiere (Monadinen), zugleich ein 
Beitrag zur Phytopathologie. Von Dr. W. Zopt. Veit & Co. Leipzig, 
1885. 4°. pp. 45. 5 col. plates. 
This is an important contribution to or rather against the monera theory. 
It consists of a careful and keen study of the biological changes in the life of 
them apart in a group he called the “monera” (see is ‘History of Creation, 
Studien iiber Monera, or Leidy’s Rhizopods of N, A.). The characters and rela- 
tions of the monera are very well stated by Packard in his Zoology (p.18). The 
em Heckel and subsequen writers, are character- 
ized by the simplest organization, consisting of undifferentiated protoplasm 
without nuclei or vacuoles. It was pl’s good fortune to come across a fine 
quantity of Vampyrella among some fresh-water alge, and he took the occa- 
their structure and ¢ anges. e first treats of V. vorar Cienk very large 
specimen of this readily shows a border of weakly refractive protoplasm, free 
of the minute granules which are abundant throughout the remainder of the 
pig hfeaner. thus demonstrating the presence of a true ectoplasm and endoplasm, 
as in ameeba 
