148 : BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ AUGUST 
While the work is an excellent anatomical study of the fungus and its 
relation to the host, it contains little to elucidate the life-history of the fungus 
in nature, which, as the author remarks in the first chapter, is the only basis 
upon which defense is possible-— H. HASSELBRING. 
MINOR NOTICES. 
THe account of Eucalyptus obligua L’Her., which is figured on four 
plates, forms part II of Maiden’s Critical revision of the genus Eucalyptus. 
R.B 
ENGELMANN has recently published the fifth fascicle of Dalla Torre and 
Harms’s Genera Siphonogamarum,’ including genera numbered 5183 to 
6491.—C. R. B. 
VOLUME 3 of the botanical series of the Field Columbian Museum is to 
be wholly devoted to Plantae Yucatanae by Dr. C. F. Millspaugh. Dr. 
‘Millspaugh has been studying the plants of the insular, coastal, and plains 
regions of Yucatan for several years and has collected personally in this 
region. He has now begun the enumeration of the flora of the Antillean 
portion of Yucatan, which may be described as embracing roughly the por- 
tion of the state of Yucatan lying north of latitude 19° 30’. Fascicles will 
appear from time to time, as opportunity permits, without regard to the 
natural sequence of the orders, though they will be complete as far as the 
knowledge of the species permits. Asa basis for the most important specific 
distinctions Dr. Millspaugh has selected the fruits and seeds, believing that 
these vary less than any others. Each species is illustrated by an inset 
figure, somewhat after the manner of Britton and Brown’s ///ustrated flora. 
These figures are admirably drawn by the author or by Miss Agnes Chase; 
unfortunately many of them have been sadly marred in the printing. If the 
copy which has reached us is a fair sample, we can only express surprise that 
the Museum should accept and issue such press work. It is extremely 
unfortunate that the excellent work of the author should be sent out in so 
unworthy a dress.—C. R. B. 
NOTES FOR STUDENTS. 
G. K. LEMMon describes in an out of the way place® a new lily, Lidéum 
Kelleyanum, found near King’s river, California, of which we make note that 
it may not escape attention.—C. R. B 
4DALLA Torre, C. G., and Harms, H., Genera Siphonogamarum ad systema 
Englerianum conscripta. Fasc. 5. pp. 321-400. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 
1903. AZ. 4. 
MILLsPAUGH, C. F., Plantae Yucatanae: plants of the insular, coastal and 
plain regions of the Peninsula of Yucatan, Mexico. Field Columbian Museum, Bot- 
Ser. 3:1-84. Illustrated. 1903. 
$Sierra Club Bulletin 4:9. 1903. 
