248 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
CURRENT LITERATURE. 
gy of Phenogamous Plants. By George Lincoln Goodale. Ivison, Blake- 
man, Taylor & Co., New York and Chicago, 1885, 
, only as applied to phanerogams. Tlie first 
books have appeared to meet thisdemand. An E 8 Lo ' 
had already appeared, in 1880 both Bessey’s Botany and Vines’ edition 0 
wer 
ave the 
Bary issued from the Clarendon Press, all these su pplemented by foreign books. 
Into this goodly array we are exceedingly glad to welcome Dr. Goodale, for 
ting. The second part 
promised in the course of the year, and it is to be sincerel y hoped that six more 
and pains seems to have been taken to avoid any “stock” figures. : 
n figures and text many structures have been presented more satisfactorily 
than ever before in an English book, and the summing up of peste views, 
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oodale’s classification of tissues is simple enough, which is certainly 
a thing to be much desired. It is surely a most perplexing thing to try to clas- 
sify things which are not distinct and constantly intergrade. Whether Haber- 
landt’s classification’ upon a physiological basis, given by our author in 
een, 
ook before us four primary divisions are made, viz., parenchym’, 
prosenchyma, sieve-cells, and latex-cells. Of course the first two are taken in 
ma and sclerenchyma modification), epidermal cells, and cork-cells. Pr f 
chyma includes the cells of the fibro-vascular system, under the subdivision : 
a agg gs proper (including wood fibres and tracheids), ducts, and bast- 
cells. 
.__ Whether botanists will consider prosenchyma as just the most suitable 
word in this connection is uncertain. It is certain that the classification has 
the merit of simplicity, : piss 
n introduction of 24 pages deals with histological appliances, treating 
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leaf. Chapter IV contains the minute structure and development of the peo 
fruit, and seed. Chapter V (the last) deals with the physiological class! a 
tion of tissues, under the headings of division of labor in the plant, and 
iE ditvidion of Tabor 38 tee ae 
'Bor, GAZETTE, x, p. 229, 
