1809] CURRENT LITERATURE 365 
swing far toward the side of quantitati 
titat : 
nearer equilibrium.—C. R. B i ive study and then back toa point 
T 
.. va poanieny issues as one of its bulletins the 
MR ie 4 drime e book, by the Chief of the Division of Forestry 
igaple Be csre (1) rv of forestry2 (n four chapters Mr. Pinchot presents 
Gy individual: (2) the a account of the sinstae and activities of a tree as 
oe in light ia ations of trees in @ forest, including their require- 
discussing the origin of si and their reproduction ; (3) the life of a forest, 
a e sete the struggle between the trees, their death, 
Be teowsing, and Suiee ; (4) the enemies of the forest, including man, 
fre ’ roping animals, insects and fungi, wind, snow, and 
‘The : ‘ 
 eaienames ela called for and is an excellent introduction 
og accurat reading. The physiology and anatomy are very ele- 
figures and plates whi : as such general statements can be. The numerous 
ee ee we almost all half tones from photographs, consti- 
might be spared ares: so much overdone, however, that half of them 
pared, as far as the text is concerned.—C. R. B. 
National Herba- 
THE LA 
: st of the Contributions from the United States 
e of the series. 
tium (x: 
It a 78-64. 1899) is one of the most notabl 
tal American flora ie i the most recent studies upon the Me 
} 40d in the “Sead J. N. Rose, whose untiring labor both in the field 
Mexican and  salean oak resulted in large accessions to our knowledge of 
Oe batts, vis. taxc merican plants. The Contribution consists of two dis- 
} 4 notes on eel ra studies, illustrated by text cuts and ten plates ; 
q a DB iice plants of Mexico, illustrated by thirty-seven plates of 
e : 
ee in viich studies are as follows: a rearrangement of the suborder 
| Mopsis of the Santtge genera are recognized, Pseudobravea being new; 
of them new: n merican species of Nissolia, including twelve species, 
‘Rotes on Pies -_ on Rutacez, with two new species of Xanthoxylum ; 
of Clitoria, wit ez, with a new species of Turnera notes on Mexican species 
Mbaces, with descripti notes on Malvacee and 
0G new oe of ten new species; notes on Passiflora, with 
Neluding ten s Sc bae oes of the North American species of Waltheria, 
s pecies, three of them new; notes on some Mexican species of 
anish cedar, with descrip- 
xican and Cen- 
h ee : 
descriptions of two new. species; 
a m, : 
7 tions of — of them being new; Cedrela, or Sp 
| Pecies bein ea Species; notes on new or rare Leguminose®, 
| Peing described; descriptions of twelve miscellaneous ne 
The forest. 12M» pP- 88, 
Ww species. 
*PINC 
HOT, Gir : 
,GIrForD: A primer of forestry. Part I. 
aan 
.& 4, figs, & j 
a 3 Washington: Dept. of Agric. 1899- 
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