146 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [august 



MINOR NOTICES. 



Dr. Roland Thaxter,^ in continuing his studies of Laboulbeniaceae, 

 has described numerous new species, adding no fewer than forty to the genus 

 Labonlbenia, and describing as new genera Herpomyces (c^ spp.), Acallojnyces^ 

 Ecteinomyces^ and Coreomyces — J. M. C. 



The ninth part of V^xesntx^ Die Rohstqffe des PJfmizenreiches^ con- 

 eludes the nineteenth section on Untert?'dische Pflanzeniheile (to p. 570» 

 contains the twentieth part on Blatter tmd Krauter{y>Y>. 572-625), and begins 

 the twenty-first part on Bliithen tmd Bliithejitheile. — J. M. C. 



Miss Alice Eastwood has published a Flora of the South fork of Kings 

 rivery being no. 27 of the publications of the Sierra club. This is the first 

 attempt to prepare a manual of the flora of the southern Sierra Nevada; and 

 the purpose of this preliminary publication is both to record the plants of an 

 interesting region and to provide a simple guide for those not specially 

 trained. — J. M. C. 



Parts 213 and 214 of Engler and Prantl's NatUrlicheii Pflaiizenfamilien 

 have appeared.5 The former contains the conclusion of the Isoetaceae by 

 R. Sadebeck, and Cycadofilices, Cladoxyleae, Lyginopterideae, Medulloseae, 

 Cycadoxyleae, Protopityeae, and Araucarioxyla by H. Potonie ; also a sup- 

 plement on Marattiaceae and Ophioglossaceae by von Bitter. The latter 

 part contains a continuation of the Pottiaceae by V. F. Brotherus. — J. M. C. 



Y. Yabe^ has published a revision of the Umbelliferae of Japan, the 

 prefatory notes being in English, and the body of the paper in Japanese. 

 The revision includes 40 genera and 95 species, 28 being endemic, and 12 

 introduced. The largest genus is Angelica, in which several new species are 

 described. The author appears not to have had access to the recent Mono- 



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graph by Coulter and Rose, all reference to their work being in connection 

 with the much earlier Revisio?i. — J. M. C. 



Percy LeRoy Ricker has published "A preliminary list of Maine 

 fungi," being no, 3 of The University of Mame Studies. A ''historical 

 sketch of the study of the Maine flora" is given, followed by a "list of 

 works and papers treating of Maine fungi." So far as possible, the collection 

 containing the specimen cited is named, so that the right of any species to be 



■^ Prehminary diagnosis of new species of Laboulbeniaceae. V. Proc. Amer, 

 Acad. 38 : 9-57- 190?. 



4 WiESNER, Julius, Die Rohstoffe des Pflanzenreiches, etc. Volume II, pp- 48^" 

 640. figs, isb-igg, Leipzig : Wihelm Engelmann, 1902. J/ 5. 



5 Press of Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. 



•^Revisio Umbelliferarum Japonicarum. Reprint from Jour. Coll. Sci. la^p. 

 Univ. Tokyo. 16^: [repaged] 1902. 



