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cases observed it should be replaced by the 

 acute accent. A few words are habitually mis- 

 spelled, probably because they are not given 

 in the smaller dictionaries : such as cachassa 

 for cachaga, meruhim for marui, tracacha for 

 tracaja (111), chibeh for chihe (115). 



John 0. Branner 

 STANroRD University 



BOTANICAL NOTES 



ANOTHER APPLIED BOTANY BOOK 



We have become so accustomed to looking 

 for a new book, or a new revision of one of his 

 earlier books by Professor Doctor Henry 

 Kraemer, that it will not be a surprise to re- 

 ceive the announcement of another big vol- 

 ume of over eight hundred pages. In this 

 book, which he calls " Applied and Economic 

 Botany " ^ he has in mind the needs of stu- 

 dents in technical schools, and agricultural, 

 pharmaceutical and medical colleges. At the 

 same time the work will prove itself to be a 

 valuable reference book for chemists and food 

 analysts, while students in morphological and 

 physiological botany will find much that is 

 helpful in its pages. 



In carrying out his plan for making the 

 book useful for these various classes of per- 

 sons the author wisely first makes a rapid 

 survey of the plant kingdom from Schizo- 

 phytes, Algae, Diatoms, Fungi and Lichens 

 to Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms 

 and Angiosperms. With this preparation the 

 student is next given a good course in elemen- 

 tary cytology and histology, bringing the text 

 up to page 298, where one finds a chapter on 

 the outer and inner morphology of higher 

 plants. A short chapter on botanical nomen- 

 clature must be especially useful to the par- 

 ticular students for whom the book is de- 

 signed, as it gives a few of the general laws 

 of nomenclature, and follows these with 

 twenty-nine pages in which over eight hun- 

 dred botanical names are enumerated and 

 their derivations briefly given. 



The three remaining chapters are given to 



1 Published by the author, 145 North Tenth St., 

 Philadelphia, 1914. $5. 



the classification of angiosperms yielding eco- 

 nomic products, the cultivation of medicinal 

 plants, and microscopic technique, including 

 reagents and their use. They all have a strong 

 pharmaceutical bias, and yet the student in 

 an agricultural college will find in them very 

 much that will be helpful to him, more, prob- 

 ably, than in many of the books that have a 

 more distinctly agricultural label. 



It should be said that while there are many 

 paragraphs and illustrations in this book that 

 are identical with the author's fourth edition 

 of his " Text-'book of Botany and Pharmacog- 

 nosy," ^ published four years ago, this book 

 is distinct from that, and appeals to a much' 

 wider circle of botanical students. 



OYBELE COLUMBIANA 



Under this title Dr. Edward L. Greene is- 

 sues a 56-page pamphlet as No. 1, Vol. I., of 

 a new botanical periodical which bears the 

 date of December, 1914. Although it is known 

 that the editor's address is Washington, D. C 

 (Smithsonian Institution), the publishers are 

 given as Preston & Hounds, Providence; Wil- 

 liam Wesley & Son, London, and Oswald 

 Weigel, Leipzig. Nor is there a statement of 

 a subscription price, but it is stated on the- 

 title page that the price for this part is sev- 

 enty-five cents, from which one may infer that 

 the cost of the volume may be about three 

 dollars. The same title page also informs us 

 that this is to be " a series of studies in bot- 

 any, chiefly North American," by the editor, 

 '' with occasional articles by others." 



This first number opens with six pages of 

 inimitable " explanatory," with reference to 

 the title in which it is intimated that this is- 

 likely to be a violet periodical. This sugges- 

 tion is borne out by the second paper on the 

 " Violets of the District of Columbia, I." (pp. 

 Y-33). Other papers are " Manipulus Malva- 

 cearum " (pp. 33-36) by the editor, and 

 '' Twelve Elementary Species of Onagra " 

 (pp. 3Y-56, with 5 plates) by H. H. Bartlett. 



Of course every systematic botanist will 

 welcome Cybele Columbiana. 



2Lippineott, Philadelphia, 1910. 



