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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
U. S. Department of Agriculture: 
Bureau of Plant Industry. Bull) No, 51, Barth Va. 2Pl e4Gniden 
Seal.’’? By Alice Henkel and G. Fred Klugh. Bull. No. 69. . ‘‘ American 
Warietiesyot Wettuce:, 7) Big We Wee Druicye i. we XCOVslanioe 
Bureau of Chemistry. Bull. No. 83, Part I. ‘‘Foods and Food Con- 
trol.’’ Part II. ‘‘ Legislation During Year Ending July 1, 1904.’° By 
W. D. Bigelow. ° ‘ 
University of California, Agricultural Experiment Station: 
Twenty-second Annual Report. Bull. No. 162. ‘*Commercial Fer- 
tilizers.’’ By George Roberts. 
Smithsonian, Institution, U. S. National Museum: 
Directions for Collecting Information and Specimens for Physical 
Anthropology.’’ By Ales Hrdlicka. 
Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Penna.. 12 Pl. 
(Contributed by Dr. O. P. Phillips.) Various writers. | 
PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED. 
The Genus Ribes in California. A. A. Heller. Muhlenbergia, Vol. 1, 
No. 5. Sept., 1904. 
In this paper the author supplies a great convenience for the study 
of the genus of which it treats, by bringing together the scattered origi- 
nal descriptions of the forty-one species which he recognizes as occurring 
within the State limits. He is to be commended further for providing 
a key, in the construction of which much careful work has evidently 
been expended. The usefulness of papers similar to this is often greatly 
impaired by the absence of any provision whereby a specimen may ‘be 
traced to its appropriate species. A key is, also, to some extent, a test 
of the validity of species, inasmuch as it brings into relief the saliency, 
or the obseurity, of the characters by which they are distinguished. 
Judged by this test, one is disposed to suspect that a careful revision of 
the genus will rather diminish than increase the number of the species 
here recognized. 
In the same number of Muhlenbergia, two new species are proposed 
founded on Southern California plants. These are Hriodictyon trichoca- 
lyx, from Seven Oaks, and Orthocarpus exsertus, from the neighborhood 
of Pasadena. The types of both species were collected by Mr. G. B. 
Grant. S: Bie: 
The increasing demand for the drug ‘‘Golden Seal’’ has prompted 
the issue of a pamphlet on the subject by the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
In it directions are given for the growth and propagation of the plant, 
with an appended list of prices that suggest one more lucrative industry 
for the agriculturist. Dz. 
Foods and Food Control, a recent Bulletin of the Bureau of Chemis- 
try, U. S. Dept. Agric., is a compilation of the legislation enacted in 
the several States during 1904. 1D), 
Commercial Fertilizers. Bull. No. 162 of the Ag’] Exper. Sta. of the 
Univ. of California. 
The analyses and valuations of the various fertilizers used in Cali- 
fornia are here given, so that it becomes a valuable guide to the farmer 
using such products. D. 
