CURRENT LITERATURE. 



MINOR NOTICES. 



C. H. ROBisoN, instructor in biology in the high school of Oak Park, 

 Illinois, has published a pamphlet entitled "Outlines for field studies of com- 

 mon plants " that deserves attention. It is the result of a large and success- 

 ful experience in such work with pupils of high school age. The price is 

 25 cents, and copies can be obtained by addressing the author. — J. M. C. 



W. L. Jepson' has published a school flora for the Pacific coast, a com- 

 panion book to Nelson's Key to Rocky mountaz7t flora and Coulter's Analyti- 

 cat key to flowering plants for the northeastern states. Of all these areas 

 perhaps Professor Jepson's was the most difficult to treat in the selective way, 

 since it comprises three very dissimilar botanical regions. However, no one 

 is better fitted to have made this selection than the author, and the descrip- 

 tions show the great personal familiarity of the field student. — J. M. C. 



The seventh part of the Catalogue of Canadian plants has just 

 appeared. The sixth part was published in 1892, and contained a list of the 

 Canadian mosses. The present part contains the liverworts and lichens. 

 The liverworts number 196 species, and the lichens 614. An extensive 

 "Addendum to Part VI" (138 pp.) is also published, bringing up to date 

 "our knowledge of American mosses north of the United States." Professor 

 Macoun is to be congratulated upon the persistent way in which this very 

 valuable catalogue is being pushed to its completion. — J. M. C. 



The volume of the Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science for 

 1901, just issued, contains the following botanical papers: Flora of Eagle 

 lake and vicinity, by H. W. Clark ; The vegetation of abandoned rock 

 quarries, by Mel T. Cook; Contributions to the flora of Indiana, by 

 Stanley Coulter; Effect of the composition of the soil upon the minute 

 structure of plants, by H. B. Dorner ; Correlation of forestry and the sci- 

 ences, by W. H. Freeman ; A study of the histology of the wood of certain 

 species of pines, by Katherine E. Golden ; The germinative power of 

 the conidia of Aspergilhis Oryzae, by Mary F. Hiller ; A collection of 

 myxomycetes, by F. Mutchler ; Spore resistance of loose smut of wheat 

 to formalin and hot water, and Some additions to the flora of Indiana, by 

 William Stuart ; Forestry in Indiana (Presidential address), by M- B. 



Mepsox, Willis Linn, A school flora for the Pacific coast, vi + 96. New York : 

 D. Appleton and Company. 1902. 



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