
{901 ] CURRENT LITERATURE 437 
MINOR NOTICES. 
Dr. G. N. BEstT has revised the North American species of Heterocladium 4 
recognizing four species, of which two, 1. acount and 7. heteropterioides are 
new. Three Kindbergian species are in the ‘doubtful or excluded” list. 
—C.R. B. 
Emma J. COLES has published a catalogue of the native vascular plants 
growing in the vicinity of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The ntroduction pre- 
sents the general physiographic and ecologic features of the region, and in 
the list all known stations are carefully recorded. The number of native 
plants recorded is 1111, of introduced plants 176.—J. M. C. 
V. K. CHEsnut and E. V. WILcox have published a valuable preliminary 
report (Bull. 26, Div. of Bot., U.S. Dept. Agric.) of their investigation of the 
stock-poisoning plants of Montana. It contains not only a detailed account 
of their observations and experiments, but also summaries of symptoms 
and remedies. The most important plants poisonous to stock in Montana are 
the death camas (Zygadenus venenosus), tall larkspur(Delphinium glaucum), 
purple larkspur (D. dzcolor), Wyoming water hemlock (Cicuta occidentalis), white 
loco weed (Aragallus spicatus), and various lupines (Lufinus spp.).—J. M. C. 
THE FIRST FASCICLE of what promises to be a very excellent treatise on 
botany by Bonnier and DuSablon has just been published.© The work is 
intended specially for advanced students in the universities and schools of 
medicine, pharmacy and agriculture. The first section discusses such general 
matters as the characters of plants, the members of the plant body, the large 
divisions of plants, the cell and the tissues. The second section, entitled the 
morphology of angiosperms, concerns itself with the primary and secondary 
Structure of stamens, leaves, and roots. The illustrations are fresh and in the 
main excellent, though the anatomical ones are better than those represent- 
ing external features. We reserve further notice of this work until its 
completion.—C. R. B 
WILLIAM R. Maxon’ has published a very useful list of the pteridophytes 
of North America north of Mexico. Eaton’s Ferns of North America and 
4Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 28 : 123-131. pls. 77, 74. 1901. 
rand Rapids flora, a catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns growing with- 
out pe eens in the vicinity of Grand Rapids, Michigan. 8vo. pp. xxii-+ 170. 
Grand care Lyon, Kymer & Palmer Company. I90I. $1.00. * 
NNIER, GASTON, and DuSABLON, LECLERC: Cours de botanique ; anatomie ; 
physiologic ; ‘daasiicaia: applications agricoles, industrielles, médicales ; morpholo- 
le expérimentale ; géographie botanique ; art éontologie ; historique + a usage des 
éléves des universités, des écoles de médecin et de pharmacie, et des écoles d’agri- 
culture. Vol. I, part 1. 8vo, pp. 384, figs. oe Paris: Paul Dupont. 1901. Com- 
plete in 6 parts. 25 fr. Each part singly 6 
7A list of the ferns and fern allies of North America north of eee wae prin- 
cipal synonyms and distribution. Proc. U. S. Nat. Museum 23 : 619-651. 
