CURRENT LITERATURE. 



MINOR NOTICES. 



With THE appearance of the second fascicle^ of the second volume. 

 H^-Iiicsy^s J^/ora of Greece \s comp]ete. This last fascicle completes Cam- 

 panulaceae and closes with Labiatae. — J. M. C. 



A SECOND EDITION of Green's Forestry in Minnesota'' has made its 

 appearance. Part I of the first edition ^ has been better classified and 

 extended, and Part ir which deals with the trees of Minnesota, has been 

 brought up to date. The work is certainly deserving of the wide circulation 

 which the first edition has received.^— H. N. Whitford, 



The seventh volume (2d series) of Contributions from t/ie Botanical 

 I Institute^ of the University of Pavia contains 356 pages of text and twenty 



lithographic plates. There are twenty-five papers and notes, largely crypto- 

 gamic, but also concerning the histology of some higher plants and on physi- 

 ological subjects. There is also a short biographical sketch and portrait of 

 Giuseppe Moretti, — B. M. Davis. 



The first annual issue for Botany in the International catalogue of 

 scientific literature has appeared, and proves to be only a first part. The 

 literature cited is that of 1901, but the work of the " Regional Bureaus " has 

 not been well organized. In fact, so far as American botanical literature is 

 concerned this part might as well not have been issued. The curious ran- 

 dom selection of about 150 American titles, sometimes inaccurately cited, 

 suggests the hit-and-miss work of clerks who had no access to American 

 botanical literature, and no knowledge to enable them to select intelligently 

 from such as they did see. This seems especially inexcusable, since a single 

 volume of the BiilL Torr. Bot. Club, with its "Index to American literature, 

 would have secured most of the necessary citations of American literature in 

 convenient form. The organization for botanical citations must be upon 

 some more rational basis before the Catalogue will commend itself to bot- 

 anists. — J. M. C. 



'Halacsy, E. de, Conspectus Florae Graecae. Vol. II. fasc. XL pp. 257-612. 

 Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. 1902. M %, 



^ Green, S. B., Forestry in Minnesota, 2d ed,, pp. 401,//^. 63. figs. 47. St. Paul, 

 Minnesota: Pioneer Press Co, 1902. Price 25 cents. 



3 Box. Gaz. 27 : 228. 1899. 



*Atti deir Institute Botanico deil' Universita di Pavia. II. 7: 1-356. i^Zr. /-^o. 

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