20 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ January, 
The only other case of the kind which I have ever heard of, and th 
only one known to the gentleman whose case is recorded above, is that 
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amount without knowing what it was; but h taken with the 
€ was soon , 
worst symptoms of strawberry poisoning, his illness speedily becoming 
80 serious that his life for a ti 
portant difference being that the susceptibility to the poi 
veloped in the first case until the person in question was fourteen years 
ol age, while in the other it seems to have been congenital. 
ornell University. A. N. PReEnTIss. 
CURRENT LITERATURE. 
The Prothallium of Equisetum.1 
In this monograph Dr. Buchtien gives, in the first ten pages, a very 
full history of the special studies 
1717 t. Sadebeck in 1879 
known, failed to understand 
all the later ones have been 
thallia. Buchtien gives a detai 
" Muscologia Gallica.? 
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pletes the genus Orthotrichum. This part and a portion of the preced- 
ing and following, embracing all Europ: i 
trichum, has been specially elaborated by Dr 
mendable recognition of the variability of the species of this genus, 
many Nominal species are reduced. Dr. Venturi’s work is not only 0 
1 Entwicklungsgeschichte des Prothallium yon Equisetum. Von Dr. Otto Buchtien. - (Bib- 
liotheea botanica, heft 8) 4°, pp. 49, plates vi, Cassel: Theodor Fischer} 1837. Price 
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