CURRENT LITERATURE. 
MINOR NOTICES. 
A SEPARATE from the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences 
has been distributed by Dr. Davis. In it 73 species of parasitic fungi are 
given that have been detected in the state since the publication of the last list 
in 1893, and additional hosts for 58 previously published species are recorded. 
Entyloma Floerkee Holw. and E. Castalig Holw. are probably described here 
longissima macrospora Davis is said to differ from the type in its “larger 
spores, 6-11 w, mostly 8-9 uw in diameter.” 
Dr. WILtiaM TRELEASE? has published the results of his botanical 
observations on the Azores. The author visited those isolated islands in the 
summers of 1894 and 1896, and in addition to his own collections also 
enumerates plants previously reported from the islands. A brief discussion 
of the ecological features precedes the catalogue. There are few endemic 
species, and few pollinating insects. ‘The greater part of the Azorean 
flowering plants are either anemophilous or adapted to pollination by the aid 
of little-specialized insects, and, as a rule, they have open flowers with readily 
accessible nectar or pollen.” The list includes cryptogams as well as 
phanerogams.—J. M. C 
IN CONTINUATION of his studies of Mexican and Central American plants, 
Dr. J. N. Rose? has just published an important contribution. Instead of 
reporting upon the many separate collections, a method which badly scatters 
material, Dr. Rose has determined to discuss genera, families, etc., Upon fhe 
basis of all available material. In the present contribution the following 
subjects are presented: Notes on Celastracez ; Notes on Rutacez, in which 
the genus Esenbeckia is enlarged to five species, three of which are figured ; 
Notes on Burseracee ; Notes on Cucurbitacee, among which is a discussion 
* Davis, J. J—Second supplementary list of parasitic fungi of Wisconsin. From 
Trans. Wis. Acad. Sciences 11 : 165-178. 1897. 
2 TRELEASE, WILLIAM.—Botanical observations on the Azores. From the eighth 
Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden, pp. 77-220, p/. 12-66, September 
9, 1897. 
3RosE, J. N.—Studies of Mexican and Central American plants. Contrib. U. 5- 
Nat. Herb. 5: 109-144. 1897. 
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