122 The Botanical Gazette. [March, 
brothers in 1882, upon an expedition made under the auspices of the 
Bremen Geographical Society. The paper contains a description of 
the regions, and discusses zones of vegetation, trees and shrubs, food- 
giving plants, introduced species, and local plant names. The lists of 
plants are full, and evidently fairly representative, accompanied by 
critical notes. To the American botanist it would be evident at once 
that Dr. Kurtz has not had access to the more recent monographs 
published in this country. 
A NEAT SOUVENIR? of a botanizing trip in the vicinity of Black Bar- 
ren Mineral Springs, Lancaster co., Pa., has been issued primarily for 
distribution among friends of the writer. Only the common flowers are 
mentioned, and their mostly prosaic names rather detract than add to 
the slight poetical effulgence of the measured lines and rhymes. As 
a souvenir it is neat and attractive; as poetry it does not strongly im- 
press the unbiased reader. 
THE EXCELLENT SERIES Of illustrated articles by Dr. W. G. Farlow 
in Garden and Forest, under the heading: “Notes for mushroom-eat- 
ers,” have been republished in pamphlet form. It makes a convenient 
popular account of the best and most common edible fungi. 
A HANDY ANALYTICAL KEY to the suborders, families and genera of 
N. A. Pyrenomycetes, recently distributed by Mr. J. B. Ellis, furnishes 
a much needed assistance in using Ellis and Everhart’s work on 
these plants. 
THE PAPER On electricity in plant-growing, by Prof. L. H. Bailey, 
read before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, has been distrib- 
uted as a separate pamphlet. 
1S. M The golden rod = other flowers. 12mo. Geo. W. Richards & 
Co., Philadelphia, 1894. pp. 25cts. 
