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1 874. The ferruginous lamellae and light brown spores indicate 

 that this should be placed in Pholiota rather than in Stropharia. 

 The species was originally referred to Stropharia with much 

 doubt, as is shown by the note accompanying the description. 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



REVIEWS 



A Course in Botany and Pharmacognosy.* 



This book is intended in part to supplement a lecture course 

 in pharmacy though primarily it is designed as a laboratory 

 guide and manual. A work of this character is of unusual 

 interest and concern, coming at a time when there is too often a 

 tendency, in order to forward commercial interests, to substitute 

 inferior and cheaper drugs for those of higher grade or through 

 harmless adulterations to render them uncertain in action and so 

 jeopardize life. It can hardly be questioned that the training of 

 the pharmacist to-day often fails to fit him to discriminate in 

 many cases as to the purity and excellence of the drugs which 

 he is using, and there is frequently to be noted a tendency on the 

 part of the student to be impatient of training along this line of 

 work, holding that a superficial knowledge of the properties and 

 characters of drugs is quite sufficient so long as it enables him to 

 meet the requirements of the law. The widespread adulteration 

 of drugs in this city recently discovered by the Health Board is 

 a case in hand. This conscienceless bartering of human safety 

 for money, however, is perhaps less worthy of attention than the 

 fact that the druggists were ignorant of the character of their 

 stock. 



Professor Kraemer has divided his subject into two sections, 

 an introductory part of 100 pages and the main portion dealing 

 with pharmacognosy. The introduction gives a succinct account 

 of the inner and outer morphology of the plant body and com- 

 prises a review of the cell forms and contents together with the 



* Henry Kraemer, A Course in Botany and Pharmacognosy. Svo. Pp. 1-384. 

 /. 1-128. New York, G. E. Stechert, 1902. $3.50. 



