1886. ] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 219 
Contr mgs to the history of certain species é Conifers. By Dr. Maxwell T. Mas- 
Fr om Linnean Society’s Journal, vol. xxii, pp. 169-212. plates 11. X. 
io ection et eager; and phate! and is meant to furnish the basis of 
a fuller sketch of the fam Coming from such hands, however, it would be 
strange if it did not porire f valuable material. he American species dis- 
anatomical structure of the leaf. When gross and minute anatomy join ‘fsa 
in descriptive botany some good work will be the result. 
A art Te Patri Botany. By M.C. Cook, M.A., LL.D. W. H. Allen & 
Co. n. J. H. Vail & Co., New York. 1884. 16mo. PP iv, 123. 
nty- “x years ago sec little volume was prepared to meet the demand 
for a shee manual. For one shilling it gave all the salient fate belonging to 
ee botany, not pro isle essing to Soin out the periods or popularize the 
dry details. It was to be considered more as a reminder than “3 an art tip 
ross-section. ‘ When 8] iral line is coiled up in the interior of cells, it is 
_ called Fibro-cellular tissue.” It furthermore states t that this spiral is sometimes 
broken up into bars and forms elongated dots. “ Pleurenc p ederal is said to be 
“glandular woody tissue,” all of which seems to refer to the discigerous tissue 
i “ primordi ‘oplasm.” 
of: conifers. One of the cell contents is th utricle « 
The pith of a stem is said to be compo “cellular tissu 0 
the woody parts, while the “ bark ” 4 ss in the style of long es re 
1 “ t the ovules a in m 
iat con et segatanragt Thee ffected between the fovilla, 
Contents of the pollen grains, and thus a union is e 
or fertilizing aideaaiile wok the pollen; ng A bo semi-fluid contents of the ovule.” 
of hi ch illustrations. I 
anatomical terms wou yisidg the Carpben 
the book is untimely. If one understands botany, this book i is ‘not needed ; 
he wants to learn it, this ie Sour far from being the book he w 
any parts the pug of the fixed 
of a glossar. e tru 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
LActuca ScaRIOLA has been found this season by Mr. Rose, in Union county, Indiana. 
hich gives a red or red- 
aan boing TINOUS. —— = pti sare _— has starch w 
: ste: It does not appear to differ otherwise from 
seas valebedic: 
