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MINOR NOTICES. 
THE FIRST SUPPLEMENT to Paris’s /ndex Bryologicus has been issued by 
the house of Georg & Cie, Geneva, as one of the Mémoires de 1’ Herbier 
Boissier, It contains 234 pages, with innumerable entries correcting and 
adding to the original 7ndex.-—C. R. B. Paes 
THE FOURTH PART of the new edition of Weisner’s Die Rohstoffe des 
__ Phanzenreiches completes the account of plant fats (42 pp.); Dr. K. Mikosch 
_ treats vegetable wax (21 pp.); Dr. A. E. von Vogl writes the tenth section on 
camphor (6 pp.); Dr. S. Zeisel contributes the chapter on starch (80 pp-); 
and Dr, Lafar’s section on yeast is begun (11 pp.)—C. R. B. 
‘THE SECOND FASCICLE of the list of the genera of seed plants, according 
_ tothe system of Engler, has appeared with remarkable promptness.° In the 
notice of the first part in this journal’ the general character of the work was 
stated. In the present signatures 1220 genera are listed, bringing the number 
_ §p to 2490, the list beginning with A/opAza (Iridacez) and ending with Silene 
iS (Caryophyllaceae),— a MC, 
RECENT NUMBERS of Engler’s Die natirlichen Pflanzenfamilien are as 
llows: Number 198 contains a continuation of Muscé, by Carl Miller and 
W. Rubland, and deals as yet with the general morphological characters of 
the group. Number 199 contains the conclusion of the Marattiacee by G. 
ane : d Ophioglossaceze by the same author, and a general discussion of 
: ales by H. Potonié. Number 200 and 201 (a double number) con- 
: oe ricton of the Hyphomycetes, by G. Lindau, and with it bees 
ace n of the part of the first volume which deals with the Fungl.— 
& parenchyma cells, or of other cells differing but little from 
es. It never occurs in cells containing oxalic acid (as oxalate). 
whi 3 % dissolved in the cell sap in young organs, but is an amorphous 
* the parts. The alkaloid is formed in the leaves and transported to 
; where it is stored either in its original form or, after transformation 
Gaz, - se 1640, figs. 89-122, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. M5. See BoT- 
* rer, 4900 ; 
‘Da ‘ 2 
| Rgleri at TORRE, C. G. De, and Harms, H.: Genera Siphonogamarum ad edi 
Mo Lei zi eg Fasiculus secundus (signatura 11-20). Small 4to, PP- 
‘ Oa ig: L Im Engelmann 1900. 
: SS Gaz, 30: 67. 1900. 
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m de l'Institut botanique de Buitenzorg. III. 8vo, pP- 43: 
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