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Sceptrum Carolinum dicta, quam * * * praeside Laurentio Robergio * * * ven- 
tilandam sistit auctor Johannes Olavus Rudbeck Ol. Fil. * * * 1731. After 
mentioning the original edition of the respective works, subsequent editions, 
reissues, and translations are accurately recorded; and in each instance the usual 
information is given as to place and time of publication, as well as the form, 
number of pages of text and index, and other details. In those works consisting 
of more than one volume the subjects treated in each volume and the number 
of pages devoted to each subject are indicated briefly in tabulated form. Refer- 
ence is also made to contemporary notices and reviews. 
Linnaean works are appended, which add to the interest of the volume. It is a 
book which will serve as a most useful guide to the Linnaean literature.—J. M. 
GREENMAN, 
The flora of Styria.—Von HavexS has begun a systematic treatment of 
the ferns and flowering plants of Styria. The first number of this work contains 
a key to the main groups and sub-groups, which are clearly defined, and a second 
key leading directly to the families. The enumeration of species follows a natural 
Sequence, beginning with Ophioglossum vulgatum L. and continuing through 
the three parts to Chenopodium album L. A concise description of each species 
's given in German, and associated with it one finds a fairly complete synonomy 
and bibliography. Careful attention has been given to habitat and distribution. 
Text figures are introduced to illustrate certain groups, but the illustrations lack 
clearness and detail. The nomenclature is in accordance with the Vienna Rules 
adopted at the last International Botanical Congress. 
On the whole the work thus far happily combines a semipopular presentation 
and a degree of scientific accuracy which will make it useful to the local botanist 
and to the general systematist.—J. M. GREENMAN. 
_Flowering plants and ferns.—Under this title Wis published the first 
edition of his manual and dictionary in 1897. A second edition appeared in 
“994, and now a third’ has come to hand. The purpose of the book is “to supply, 
Within a reasonable compass, a summary of useful and scientific information 
about the Plants met with in a botanical garden or museum, or in the field.” 
The result is a very convenient book of reference. The first part presents an 
5 Von Havex, Aucust, Flora von Steiermark. Eine systematische Bearbeitung 
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Blitenpflanzen nebst einer pflanzengeographischen Schilderung des Landes. Vol. 1. 
a Pp. 240. Berlin: .Gebriider Borntraeger. 1908. 
oo) C., A manual and dictionary of the flowering pl oo 
Pun, po: it712. Cambridge: The University Press. 1908. New York: G. 
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