470 Lhe Botanical Gazette. [November, — 
floras of the spermaphytes do not adequately cover its territory, to say 
nothing of the entire lack of manuals for the lower plants. 
We congratulate the people of Nebraska therefore, on the auspi- 
cious beginning of this work. We commend the disinterested labors 
of the botanical seminar to public support by the appropriation of 
public moneys for maintenance and extension of the botanical survey. 
No state, so far as we are aware, has ever had such work done at pri- 
vate cost, and we doubt not that a small appropriation would not only 
greatly encourage these unselfish students of the Nebraska flora, but 
greatly facilitate and extend their work. 
Minor Notiees. 
Pror. W. W. BaiLey’s Botanical Note Book will surely be wel- 
comed by those who intend giving a course of lectures on structural 
and systematic botany in relation to the phanerogams, and conducting 
classes in laboratory work in the’same subject. The book is divided 
into two parts. The first part consisting of outlines of lectures on the 
seed, root, stem, leaves, inflorescence, flower, essential organs, and 
fruit. Each lecture is followed by a schedule for the description of 
the parts treated in the lecture. 
The schedules consist of questions, and lines of investigation to be 
followed by the student. Part two is devoted to lectures upon cer- 
tain difficult families or genera with schedules for theirstudy. These 
are arranged in the same general way as the preceding, and include 
Composite, Umbelliferze, Cruciferze, Graminez and Ferns (with the 
genera Carex and Cyperus.) The framework of an introductory lec- 
ture on the subject of botany in general precedes the whole. The 
book is of handy size, 63 by 434", and is bound in strong flexible cov- 
ers. It will be a welcome addition to the laboratory, and a practical 
help to the instructor.—WaLTER DEANE. 
THE PROCEEDINGS of the Indiana Academy of Science for 1893 con 
tain much botanical material, chiefly in connection with the work of 
the State Biological Survey. Professor Underwood, the botanical di- 
rector of the survey, gives an account of the work, followed by a com- 
plete bibliography of Indiana botany, a list of cryptogams at present 
known to inhabit the state of Indiana (about 650), containing descrip 
tions of some new species, and complete lists of hosts in the cas¢ of 
parasites. Among the botanical papers published in full are a general 
consideration of the phanerogamic flora of the state, by Stanley Coul- 
AE ics aah 6 tenn cra 
*Baitey, W. W.—Botanical Note Book. A synopsis of lectures and labora- 
tory plans for use in Brown University and University Extension classes. 
Providence, R. I. Preston and Rounds, 1894. 
