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criticise sharply. Indeed, polemics seem to have been his delight, and he attacked 
without reference to the standing of his antagonist, as his famous controversy 
with LieBic shows, @ propos of which UNGER wrote ENDLICHER: “Den arroganten 
Liebig hat Schleiden ganz késtlich zugedeckt.”’ 
The greater part of the book is devoted to an account of SCHLEIDEN’s published 
work, including an account of his famous cell-theory, his classical Grundziige 
der wissenschajtlichen Botanik, many minor papers, popular addresses and books, 
his editorial activity, and his philosophical, religious, and speculative writings. 
For many important services to the science of his day, and especially to botany, 
this many-sided man deserves of the present generation fuller recognition. This 
book, with its interesting portrait and character portrayal, will promote this and 
is a useful contribution to the history of botany.—C. R. B. 
MINOR NOTICES. 
ENGLER 3 has published a new edition of his Syllabus, including the most 
Tecent results of his views as to relationships. This complete outline of his classifi- 
cation, including as it does the whole plant kingdom, is of great service to students 
of morphology as well as of taxonomy. There is a prefatory statement of the 
Pnnciples of this particular scheme of classification, and an appendix containing 
the geographical regions recognized by the author.—]J. M. C. 
Wittoucusy, Vermont, has long been famous for its flora, and KENNEDY 4 
has done good service in publishing a compact account of the region and a list of 
690 plants. ‘The characteristic features of the region are wet cliffs and slides 
ae sphagnous cedar Swamps. The small area in which the species are massed 
® remarkable, Probably nine-tenths of the indigenous species being found in two 
“duare miles—J. M,C. 
: Courter and Dorner 5 have published a simple key to the genera of the 
_ et trees of Indiana, using the most obvious characters. Its practical value 
3 large classes has led to its publication, and its usefulness is not restricted to. 
Indiana —J. Mf, ¢ 
Ty ° has published a list of the vascular plants growing in Emmet 
unty, Towa, a northwestern county bordering on Minnesota. The list includes 
 numbers—J. Mc. 
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*EXcirr, A., Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. Eine Uebersicht tiber das gesamte 
Pllanzensyste 
dae m, etc. Vierte, umgearbeitete Auflage. 8vo. pp. Xxx+237- Berlin: 
Borntraeger. 1904. M4. 
*Kennepy, GEORGE G., Flora of Willoughby, Vermont. Reprinted from 
of i” STANLEY, and Dorner, H. B., A key to the genera of the epee 
hed (eet chi 12. Lafayette, Indiana: 
Publisheg eo th chiefly upon ieaf characters. 16mo. pp. 12 . 
6c € authors. 1904 : 
duced rida R.I., Flora of Emmet county, Iowa. A list of the native and intro- 
pants, Reprinted from Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 11: 201-251. 1904. 
