CURRENT LITERATURE, 
BOOK REVIEWS. 
Plant Geography. 
- THOSE WHO are interested in plant geography are extremely anxious to 
see new numbers of Engler and Drude’s Vegetation der Erde as often as se 
sible. The first volume included the results of Willkomm’s exhaustive studies 
in the Spanish peninsula.t/ The second volume deals with the flora af the 
Carpathians and is from the hands of the well-known botanist, Dr. Ferdinand 
Pax of Breslau. The area covered by this monograph is much more limited 
than that which is included in Willkomm’s work, comprising the mountain 
districts in the eastern part of Hungary. Pax began his studies in this 
region in 1882 and has continued them at short intervals up to the present 
time. Only a short time ago he published some of the results of his study, 4 
short preliminary sketch dealing with the various elements which make up 
the Carpathian flora.3 
The volume under consideration discusses the plant geography of Wie 
district in a general way only, while the author contemplates a second volume 
which will give a more special and detailed account of the smaller areas 
which make up the Carpathian region. ae 
The introduction gives a very complete history of botanical research in 
the Carpathians from the sixteenth century to the present time, The histor- 
ical account is subdivided into the period before Linnaeus, the Linnaean 
period, the period between Linnaeus and 1850, and the period from ee 
the present. Among those who deserve especial mention are Winter], ms es 
first professor of botany in Hungary; Kitaibel, a student of Winterl’s as ae 
published a monographic work on the flora of Hungary; more recently eee - 
investigations of Borbds, Hazslinszky, Kanitz, Staub, and others, n addition = 
to the careful work of Pax, have made this interesting region one of the be 
known to geographic botanists. The bibliography is unusually comple Z 
including more than 1200 titles. 
* See Bor. Gaz. 22 : 63. July 1896. 
? Pax, F.— Grundzuge der Pflanzenverbreitung in den Karpathen (Es 
Drude, Die Vegetation der Erde, II). I. Band. 8vo. pp. 269, figs. 9 helio 
,mapt. Leipzig: W. Engelmann. 1808. took! 
‘ + AX, Fr Ueber die bike ps Karpathen-flora. Jahresb. Schles. Geeelle 
Vaterl. Kultur. Breslau. 1896. | NOVEMBER : 
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