1898] CURRENT LITERATURE 135 
District of Cienfuegos, Province of Santa Clara, Cuba, in 1895-6, by 
Robert Combs. The flora of Cuba in general is discussed, the statement 
being made that it is “interesting, not only for its great number of endemic 
types, but also for the striking characters of those types, their occurrence, 
distribution, and economic uses.” The flora very closely resembles that of 
Central and South America, and is said to differ more from that of adjacent 
Florida, than does the latter from the flora of Canada. The catalogue is a 
very full one, and is accompanied by ten well-prepared plates.—]. M. C. 
THE NEW Journal of Applied Microscopy, announced by the Bausch and 
Lomb Optical Company, has made its appearance. It is devoted to micro- 
scopical instruments and technique viewed from a practical standpoint. If 
the standard set by the first number is maintained the new journal will prove 
very useful to teachers of botany and zoology, and microscopists in general. 
Besides Many suggestions regarding the use of lenses and other apparatus, 
this number contains valuable directions for the study of the myxameebe 
and plasmodia of the Mycetozoa. Methods of more direct interest to zovlo- 
gists are also contained in this initial number.—C. J. C 
THE MOST RECENT Bulletin? from the Iowa State University contains an 
oe of the ferns collected by B. Shimek on the Nicaragua botanical 
expedition of the University in 1893. The report is exceedingly well done, 
ei _— care apparently having been taken in the determinations and in 
wera of all available data. The author has done well to append 
die ae a list of all species reported from Nicaragua not included in his 
total ii et remarkably good plates accompany the contribution. The 
sentin r of species and varieties reported from Nicaragua is 198, repre- 
Shiraek af opal of which 126 species and 32 genera were collected by Mr. 
and thirt = feport adds one new species, seven new to Central America, 
Mr. ee, new to Nicaragua. It seems that of the species collected by 
ado eighty-one are terrestrial, forty-one are epiphytic, and two have 
Pted both habits.—J. M. C. 
Bhs pata of the genera of Hepatice is progressing in the hands of 
general tre state Students with considerable rapidity. In addition to the 
Botany of c. of the whole group by Dr. Underwood in the Systematic 
Evita ac America, which may be expected shortly, Mr. Alex. Ww. 
Frullania, cy Siven us a full account of the North American species of 
Mania, Frulla ompanied by fifteen plates. With the exception of Junger- 
i nia is the richest in species of all our hepatic genera. Dr. Evans 
> Bull. from . 
‘Evans, 
@ genus of H 
39 fl 75. M 
ab. Nat. Hist. 4 : 95-224. 1897. 
Ne Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences 10: I~ 
'Y 1897. 
ALEXANDER W.—A revision of the North American species of Frullania, | 
