282 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. | Oct., 
CURRENT LITERATURE. 
The Cayuga Flora. Part I: A catalogue of the Phenogamia growing without 
cultivation in the Cayuga lake basin. Balletin of the Cornell University. 
vol. ii. William R. Dudley. 8vo., pp. xxx. 133. v, with 2 maps. Ithaca, 
1886. 
catalogues we have seen. It may be taken as an example of careful and con- 
scientious work, and aided, as he has been, by specialists in their own groups, 
every part of it becomes authoritative. The introduction of 30 pages is devoted 
. ; Aili : : 
), ete. The largest ex (112) ste 
Salix (22), Polygonum (20), Solidago (18), Panicum (17), Juncus (15), ete 
Rhexia, Hippuris, Castilleia, and Pogonia pendula are reported as having dis- 
appeared. New varieties of Crategus coccinea and Naias marina are describ 
gested cuts of the pussy-willow for a head-piece and the witch-hazel for a tail- 
piece, and looking over these well-printed pages one can feel confident that from 
pussy-willow to witch-hazel all has been well done. 
Flower-Talks at Elmridge. By Ella Rodman Church. Philadelphia: Presby- 
terian Board of Publication. 1885. 12°. pp. 320. Illustrated. 
oar Pgs Sey = Foi fli By the same author and publishers. 1886. pP- 
which looks at correspon and differences of h us parts, which dis- 
cov adaptati d the means of acco plishing ends, which takes into ac- 
count the habits, gro avior of plants, in short, that which scrutinizes 
every detail of the plant’s structure and nce, and constantly inquires 
for the reason of it as look om the standard of lant’s needs. It is 
this form of the subject e new botany, as it is sometimes inappropriately 
~ posed t routine learning of t 0 ns and of th 
shapes and positions, upon wh pendence must be placed to redeem the 
isapprehension that loo n the science 
name of botany from the popular 
as having as little todo with the ver 
mythology. 
‘So far as children’s books are concerned, the botany which is the most at- 
_ tractive and serviceable in them is the kind ind to think- 
_ ing and stimulates the observation. A Lane red ee en ee 
