1905] CURRENT LITERATURE 393 
1,000 to 1,500 feet in northern Georgia. A fourth papers® gives a list of the 
fems of Georgia, with full notes, and an introduction describing the geological 
and other features of the state. A paper37 on the coastal plain plants of New 
England gives an annotated list of plants common to Georgia and other southern 
states and New England. Most of the plants belong to what may be called a 
sandy swamp flora, and many of them are found in northern Indiana near the 
shore of Lake Michigan.—H. C. CowLes. 
ONE OF THE LATEST PUBLICATIONS of the Royal Botanical Garden at Berlin 
is a guide to the “biological” collections there installed. The beginnings of this 
_. phase of the Garden activities dates back to 1890, when Dr. ENGLERS* assumed 
the directorship. In the cramped space of the old garden neither the “biologi- 
cal” nor phytogeographical display was such as to satisfy the ambitious director. 
In the new garden there is sufficient space to make an adequate display possible. 
The guidebook is arranged systematically by topics, corresponding to the arrange- 
ment of the Garden, and interesting notes are incorporated under nearly all of 
the headings. Among the topics illustrated are leaf position, leaf and stem 
adaptations in relation to photosynthesis, adaptations that protect against exces- 
sive transpiration, plants that utilize organic substances for food, stem types, 
pollination adaptations, movement phenomena, adaptation for seed dispersal. 
Such a plan is most admirable, and should be adopted as far as possible in many 
Places —H. C. Cowes. 
THE BOTANICAL SURVEY of Scotland, so auspiciously begun by ROBERT 
SMITH, has been taken up by his brother, WILLIAM 39 In the two dis- 
tricts here under review, the notes were gathered largely by the deceased — 
author, and have been appreciatively brought together by the junior author 
ater recent visits to Scotland. The general plan of the Forfar and Fife maps 
is that of the Edinburgh and Perthaline maps, as would be ‘The 
Maps are accompanied by a text giving a full account of the various formations, 
i which the regions of cultivation are included as in the earlier studies. The 
chief results of the British vegetation surveys to date, arranged according to 
C. Co 
WLES. 
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» The fern flora of Georgia. Fern Bulletin 13:1-17- 1995: 
*7——. Coastal plain plants in New England. Rhodora 7:69-80. 19°5- 
hen Abteilungen des 
ENGLER, A. Fi *. biologisch-morphologisc 
, Fithrer durch die biologis Tp: ot. Gartens, Appen- 
L 
Konigl. botanischen Gartens zu Dahlem. Notizblatt Konigl. B 
XVI. Pp. 66. 1905. 
® SwarH, Roserr and Writ1AM G., Botanical Survey of 
olar and Fife. Scotland Geog. Mag. 20:617-628- 1994- 
II7-126, 1905. 
Scotland. II and IV. 
Ibid. 2121-20; $7-833 
