220 BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
MINOR NOTICES. 
Dr. H. E. Hasse has issued a second edition of his Lichens of Southern 
California. It is reprinted, and unfortunately repaged, from the Proceedings 
of the Southern California Academy. When will authors and publishers 
learn that a repaged separate is thereby mischievously removed from its dg 
proper place in literature and made a source of annoyance whenever occasion _ 
arises for citing it? The list itself is useful and the work praiseworthy— 
CK. B. 
THE SECOND FASCICLE? of Dr. M. Giirke’s continuation of Richters 
Plante Europee has just appeared. The first fascicle has been reviewed in 
this journal (24: 122. 1897), and no further explanation is needed as to the S 
occasion and method of the work. The first fascicle presented the Archie 
chlamydez from Juglandacez to Chenopodiacez ; the present fascicle com 
tinues through Caryophyllacez, in fact most of the fascicle is given to this 
family.—J. M. C. 
THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE is prompt to take charge of ournew 
domain. Hardly had Hawaii and Puerto Rico come into the possession of ; 
the United States before a bulletin (no. 21) on vanilla culture appeared pei Z 
the Division of Botany, prepared by S. J. Galbraith, a planter in aati 
chelles islands, where vanilla is extensively cultivated. It is ho ed that is 
Hawaii and Puerto Rico will be found to furnish suitable conditions for o 
Profitable industry, but warning is given that a very destructive geen 
fungus may accompany the introduced plants unless carefully examined by 
an expert.—J. M. C. 
THE WRITINGs of Professor Beal are well known, and also the a 
has rendered to the teaching of botany. His recent little book, meee 
“Seed Dispersal,” ® is intended to help “ young botanists and teachers, eg 
deals with one of the most attractive of botanical subjects. The title fe a 
little misleading, as the book takes a wider range than seed dispersal. ge 
example, vegetative propagation, spore dispersal, and plant ag HE 
all discussed. The author writes in a pleasant, conversational style, i dal 
book should serve its purpose well. The sketches are original, a™ 
with common plants.—J. M. C. 
7GURKE, Dr, M. Plantz Europzz. Enumeratio systematica o 7 : 
— tum phanerogamicarum in Europa sponte crescentium vel mere inq’ Leip 
Operis a Dr. K. Richter incepti. Tomus II. Fasc. ii. 8vo. pp. 161-32 
Wilhelm Engelmann, 1899. J - - 
1090 
*BEAL, W.J. Seed dispersal. 8vo. pp. vii-+- 87. ‘Ginn & Co, Base 
