236 The Botanical Gazette. {May, 
edition has now been issued,’ twenty-five years after the publication of 
first. Although the third edition, issued eleven years ago, was soon/ex 
hausted the publication of this has been delayed until the pertecting 
of the remedies for grape diseases has given renewed confidence in the 
success of grape growing. The firm of Bush & Son & Meissner have 
had the cooperation in preparing this work of various gentlemen. B. 
T. Galloway, contributed the article on fungous diseases and their 
treatment; T. V. Munson, whose studies of the grape have extended 
over fifteen years, furnishes a classification of the grapes, though the 
article by Dr. Geo. Engelmann in previous editions has been con- 
tinued; C. V. Riley has revised the article on insects. ‘The descriptive 
list of varieties occupies over 100 pages, and by its typography shows 
the rank of each. The pamphlet is profusely illustrated. 
THE DRUG DAMIANA is treated in its botanical features by John S, 
Wright, with illustrations, in Zi//y’s Bulletin No. 25. It is composed of 
the dried leaves, young shoots, and occasional flowers and pods of 
Turnera diffusa aphrodisiaca, a suffrutescent plant of western Mexico, 
also reported from Texas. <Ap/opappus discoideus has sometimes been 
substituted for it. The drug has been known in this country for only 
about twenty years, but on account of strong tonic character has gained 
favor rapidly among physicians. 
THE LABORATORIES of Natural History of the State University of 
Iowa have devoted the first part of volume 3 of their Bud/etin to the 
narrative of the Bahama expedition sent out by the institution in 
1893. The number contains 250 pages and many plates. 
Four STATION BULLETINS upon weeds are as follows: The Russian 
thistle in Ohio, with poster supplement, by A. D. Selby (Ohio, no. 55) 
general account, and a copy of the state weed laws: Five farmers’ foes 
by Moses Craig (Ore., no. 32), brief account of Cnicus arvensis, C. 
lanceolatus, Sonchus arvensis, Xanthium spinosum and Salsola Kali 
tragus, with copy of state weed laws; New Mexico weeds, I, by E. 
Wooton (N. M., no. 13), some account of weeds and their eareeit 
with descriptions of eighteen of the worst kinds, finely illustrated from 
photographs; Distribution of weed seeds by winter winds, also effect 
of seed exchange upon the culture of wheat by H. L. Bolley (N. D., 
no. 17), observations on the number of seeds in snow drifts and the 
action of winds in carrying free seeds. 
cage & se & Sena —Illustrated descriptive catalogue of Amer! 
grape v pe growers’ manual, 4th ed. 8vo. pp. 198. The oy 
Bashbers. Mo. Shoe, Fifty cents. 
