308 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [OCTOBER 
Bokorny’s Textbook _ 
Boxorny has published a textbook of botany? that meets the official require- 
ments for instruction in the Oberrealschulen and Realschulen of Bavaria. It 
appears in two parts and is thoroughly well printed and illustrated. The author- 
ship of the book is a guarantee of its accuracy, and therefore the chief interest 
lies in discovering the kind of botanical material that is thought appropriate for 
the German student who is approximately the equivalent of our students from 
the third year of high school through the second year of college. In short, the 
purpose of the book would be about the same as that of most of our texts for high 
schools, which are announced for high schools, but are really suitable for colleges. 
It is evident at first glance that the demand is for a general survey of the 
whole domain of botany. The first section (145 pp.) deals with “flowering 
plants,” and is introduced by studies of common garden forms, the first contact 
being with rape and the various cabbage types. In this way a knowledge of 
the gross morphology of angiosperms is developed; to which is appended what 
would seem to be a few useless pages of cryptogams. The second section (15 pp) 
deals with “inner morphology,”’ which is explained to be “plant anatomy” or 
“histology.” Yeast, pine needles, starch grains, chloroplasts, growing points, 
vascular elements, root-hairs, etc., form the usual débris under such a captoD. 
The third section (197 pp.) is a presentation of the classification of the plant 
kingdom, that amazing impossibility that rides every German text like the io 
man of the sea. It is like inserting a dictionary of the language into the midst 
of a course on literature. We presume that the German boy must submit to 
it, but we wonder at his docility. This closes the first volume 
The second volume includes four sections. The first (20 pp-) really 
the second 
. the 
€ general structure of the book would not be so very diff : 
of me corresponding American texts, were the 200 pages of classification 
boat oe 
MINOR NOTICES ; se asec 
Bibliographia Linnaeana.—This work+ represents the most complete bibliog 
raphy of the numerous Linnaean publications ever compiled. The pe 
works of Liynagus and the publications of other authors directly r elating = 
oer chronologically, beginning with the Dissertatio botanica de 
_5 Boxorny, Tu., Lehrbuch der Botanik fir Oberrealschulen und ie 
Teil I, pp. vit 366, M4. Teil II, pp. 233, M3. Leipzig: Wilhelm lage 
* Hurts, J. M., Bibliographia Linnaeana: Matériaux pour servir 4 3 - 
— Linnéenne. Partie 1, Livrasion 1, 8vo. pp. 170. pls. 1-3, 5-9 TF a, 
——* PUniversité, C. J. Lundstrém. Berlin: R. Friedlander & Sohn. 1997 
