CURRENT LITERATURE. 
BOOK REVIEWS. 
Engler and Prantl’s Pflanzenfamilien. 
___ Titi great work has been noticed from time to time in the BOTANICAL 
: GAZETTE as the various parts have appeared. But now that Volumes II-IV 
_ ‘Secomplete, which contain the siphonogams, the time seems appropriate 
4 for a more extended notice. The first part appeared in 1887, and twelve 
_ eas later the three volumes of siphonogams were finished. The publication 
tthe three volumes of Bentham and Hooker’s Genera Plantarum, covering 
4 the same ground, but with no such breadth of treatment, extended from 
1862-1883, a period of twenty-one years. There is no definite statement as 
‘the completion of Volume I, devoted to cryptogams, but several sections 
4 a been published, and other parts are appearing with reasonable 
-— Sofaras stat 
‘SS the indexes and the cryptogams, 
are 6997 in number, the original illustrations 3026 (woodcuts 3023, 
* ete and the individual figures 19,366. The total price is AZ 436, 
ow even half morocco volumes 47 474.50. ; 
ng Considers such details he is impressed by the magnitude of the 
and still more by the organizing power which has kept the large plans 
m 
Gr, 
oe Previous general works in its spirit, it is alone in the 
id beauty of ts illustrations. Every family is thoroughly and 
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