BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 199 
CURRENT LITERATURE. 
ids of ed Paha a popular Monograph. By Henry Baldwin. 8 Yo. 
oF ule Nev -* ork. reg Pele: sje 
e years “a bowing - 
Baldwin given 
Tt would not. 
tions a ‘sal ex 
have made the book less papal 2 aan would lave re 
esting to the botanists who a ve (?) reading 
_ land certainly contains more ers o i 
Uni rty sev i 
n 
plete bibliography a nd good indexes make the b 
more esp pecially New Ragten® pokeates - The figures, pins 9a de 
author’s dr: uwings, are all good, and many of them excellen ni 
i Sante of the Nor ? American Hepatic: North of M exico. By Lucien — 
M. tes vod, es DP p. 133. Bulletin of ihe Illinois: fate Labora tor 
of N carat His ee 
To. those aed are acquainted with Dr. Underwood’s previous volume, o 
“Our Native Ferns and their Allies,” which has bronght the author much de-— 
pipes credit for its careful and able preparation, it wi no surprise to fi 
se . Under 
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t eretofore published from the region name ee" 
. tempt to describe new species, “ believing that too many haye already 
“scribed from insufficient data.” How many difficulties he met in Sept 6 
€striptions of the arcedly pe bliss so no one e know s so fully « 
erwood 
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ggraphy systematic wor Finally, let botatiels rejoice that there isone 
‘eae a bsg Teas enlightened enough So pport a State Laboratory of Pere oe 
ae Pie = nd Bacorim, Now 
orphologie und Biologie der pike ae und Bacterien. Von — 
Tig. oe. Wilhelm’ Engehnenne ae 1884. 8vo. 558 pp. 196 — 
‘ S 
origin nal work, writt 1865, was entitled “ Morphologie und p hy- 
ilze, “asl ten u nd a and contained but 316 } din 
hog of of tie, fn which the lichens are absorbed in t e fungi, and nd the new ae 
addled. but ren more om table of contents, showing a won- 2 
