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information concerning plants furnishing drugs, but has extended the scope 
of the work to plants useful in furnishing food; to those having poisonous 
properties ; and to those causing diseases. In order to make a place for one 
hundred and twenty-five pages dealing with the bacteriology of pathogenic 
forms, condensation has been carried to a great length. The interpretation 
by which the author has been led to this method of balancing his subjects 
seems rather extreme. An abundance of text-cuts, good in the main, adds 
value to the substance presented—_RopNEY H. TRUE. 
MINOR NOTICES. 
PROFESSOR A. S. HircHcock has a paper in the WWonde des Plantes on 
the Onagracee of Kansas. The geographical distribution is illustrated by 
States in the United States and by counties in Kansas, by the use of diagram- 
matic maps. His Flora of Kansas is in course of publication in the /mdustri- 
atist. It consists entirely of these diagrams, sixty-five to a page. It is 
remarkable how thoroughly these present the facts of distribution. Kansas, 
on account of the great regularity of its outline and the equality of its almost 
rectangular counties is unusually well adapted to the use of such maps.— 
CR.B, 
A LIST OF MOSSES of New Brunswick, compiled by John Moser and edited 
by G. U. Hay, is reprinted from Bulletin 16, 1898, of the Natural History 
Society of New Brunswick, pp. 23-31. The editor has allowed an unfor- 
tunate designation of 7. sf. to stand after those species recently described by 
- Kindberg, which may mislead some. It is customary to use such a sign only 
in the original place of publication.— C. R. B 
CHICORY GROWING, as an addition to the resources of the American 
farmer, is advocated, guardedly, by Maurice Kains in bulletin 19 of the 
Division of Botany, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Last year more than 
17,000,000 pounds of this root were imported.— C. R. B. : 
Dr. J. C. ARTHUR read a paper before the last meeting of the American 
Carnation Society, showing the important relations of moisture to the plant 
and advocating the sole use of the subirrigation method of watering carna- 
tions indoors.— C. R. B, 
INA RECENT bulletins of the North Carolina Geological Survey Mr. 
Pinchot gives brief descriptions of the trees of North Carolina, with particu- 
lar attention to the local distribution of the economic species. Excellent 
good illustrations enhance the value of the descriptions. 
5 PINCHOT, GiFForp, and AsHz, W.W.—The timber trees and forests of North 
Carolina. Bulletin no. 6, North Carolina Geological Survey, Raleigh. 
