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recognized that function determines form. But however clearly we recognize 
now this fact, and however improved become our views of morphology in con- 
sequence, it is improbable that categories of homologous organs will cease t 
demand recognition in our thought and in our terminology. 
In a somewhat similar way the author constructs men of straw out of the 
categories caulome, trichome, etc., and charges them so impetuously that his 
momentum carries him beyond safe middle ground to untenable positions. 
So completely has he taken the physiological point of view, that he prefers to 
base terminology upon analogy, even when he acknowledges that it obscures 
homologies. This may do for popular speech, but it ought not to continue 
and cannot long persist in scientific language. 
Though every reader may not be able to go the full length with Professor 
Goebel, it is manifest that he has produced a most useful and stimulating 
treatise on the organography of plants, which no one who cares to keep abreast 
of modern views can neglect.—C. R. B . 
MINOR NOTICES. 
Dr. CHARLES F. MILLSPAUGH? has published a third wipers 
knowledge of the flora of Yucatan. The Schott herbarium recently obtain of 
the Witmer Stone collection of 1890 under the auspices of maberere 
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the E. P. Johnson collection 0 ; 
(examined at the herbarium of Columbia University), and the con 
collections of Dr. Geo. F. Gaumer, have furnished much matetial not — 
heretofore. Sixteen new species are described.—J. M. C. 
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of poisoning some prominent persons at Washington lately throug® ©" 
amanitas. The list contains 306 titles. botany in the 
The other bibliography is a list of periodicals pases alsoa 
New York public library and the library of Columbia Univ ee ries 
list of those relating to horticulture and gardening in the 
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Museum Publication 25. Botanical Series 1 : 345-410- 1898. 
