CURRENT LITERATURE 
MINOR NOTICES. 
THE PLANTS of various regions in the state of New York have formed 
the basis for good catalogues. The latest of these is that issued by the 
Rochester Academy of Science." It is the region studied from 1836 to 1867 
y Dr. Chester Dewey, and occupied ever since by an aggressive race of 
botanists. It is more than a catalogue, as all the features of the area which - 
have any relation to plant distribution are discussed, and interesting com- 
parisons are made with the Cayuga and Buffalo floras. The native species of 
phanerogams enumerated are 948 in number, the introduced species 259 7 
but including well marked varieties the phanerogamic flora as now constituted : : 
is made up of 1,314 distinct forms.—J. M. C 
THE LAST contribution from the National Herbarium ? contains a variety c 
of material. A. S. Hitchcock reports upon a collection of plants of se 
Wyoming. John M. Coulter and J. N. Rose describe and figure 2 De 
umbelliferous genus, Leibergia, from Idaho and Washington. 
Cogniaux describes and figures Roseanthus, a new cucurbitaceous 8 
from Mexico, dedicated to Mr. J. N. Rose. As this number completes 
volume a very full index is given.— J. M. C. 
A Form of plant association which he calls protrophy has been 7 
at length by Dr. Arthur Minks in a recent volume from the press 0! ©" 
lander.3 In 1892 a new Lebensgemeinschaft, with the name sya 
described by the same author, which, however, does not seem oe 
B. Falle 
* BECKWITH, FLORENCE, and MAcauLEy, Mary E,, assisted by Joseph B. _ 
—Plants of Monroe county, New York, and adjacent territory. Large 8v0- PP 
Published by the Rochester Academy of Science, June 1896. $1.00. 
* Contributions from the U. S. National Herbarium 3: 537-012. 1896. . ms 
: M NKs, ARTHUR :—Die Protrophie, eine neue Lebensgemeinschil ot 
auffalligsten Erscheinungen. 8vo. pp. viii+247. Berlin: R. Friedlander . 
1896. 
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