186 The Botanical Gazette. [April, 
eric name Acanthomyces Thaxter is changed to Rhachomyces Thaxter 
on account of preoccupation, and a seventh species added. Two 
new genera are established, Diplomyces and Lucantharomyces, and 
twelve new species are added to Zadoulbenia. We are informed that 
twenty-four quarto plates, including 600 figures, illustrating these and 
all the other Laboulbeniaceae described by Dr. Thaxter, have been 
completed, and will be published as soon as suitable arrangements 
can be made. We sincerely hope that a publisher will be secured at 
an early day. 
CAMPBELL’s Biology? is another one-sided book from the botanist’s 
eae of view. There is a chapter on plant tissues, one on plant struc- 
ne on yeast, one on protococcus and gloeocapsa, and one on 
bacterin (together 42 pp.). The rest is almost purely zoological, and 
s to be accurate and well-put, though much condensed. The 
botintent part is good, what there is of it. But the book would be 
better without such an inadequate treatment of the life-work of plants. 
A HANDY VOLUME of about one hundred and twenty pages, in pocket 
form, dealing with the organic drugs of the United States Pharmaco- 
cei 
very compact but comprehensive manner. Under each is briefly 
stated the name, source of the drug, character of the plant, range and 
habitat, constituents of the drug, properties, dose and preparation. 
The non-pharmaceutical student would have been glad of an index. 
The work bears evidence of careful preparation. It is well printed 
and bound, and must serve a useful purpose. It is distributed by the 
firm, to whom application may be made, or to the author. 
Sh ae 
‘CAMPBELL, H. J.:—Text book of elementary biology. 8 vo. pp. xii +284. 
a 136. London: mad ‘Seauenschela & Co. {New York: Macmillan & Co.] 
1993. 
? WRIGHT, a S.:—A guide to the organic drugs of the United States Phar- 
macopeeia, 1890, containing, in addition to the brief account of organic drugs. 
a conspectus of the natural orders of plants mentioned, and gy of the 
botanical and medical terms used. Narrow 16 mo, pp. 118. Eli Lilly & Co., 
Indianapolis, 1895. 
