CURRENT LITERATURE: 
MINOR NOTICES 
Die Pflanzenstoffe.—WEHMER' has made readily available the known facts 
about the plant products (chemicals, drugs, enzymes, etc.) of the phanerogams. 
The plant families are arranged in the natural order, and under each the genera 
and species of which we have any chemical knowledge, along with the facts 
known and citations of literature establishing the facts. On the purely bo- 
tanical side many facts of distribution are recorded. The work will prove 
of great value to plant chemists, pharmacists, and plat physiologists. A 
full index of the chemicals mentioned and a second one of the raw materials 
and plants greatly enhance the value of the book.—WiL1aAM CROCKER. 
Micrography of Javanese woods.—The third part of JANSsONIuS’ microg- 
raphy of the woods of Java has appeared,? and apparently completes this 
very laborious work, as it contains a general index to the two volumes. e 
plan of the work was described in the notice of the first part,’ and a notice 
of the second part indicated the further extension of the work. The present 
part, beginning in the midst of Meliaceae and closing with Moringeae, con- 
tains 100 species, the total for the two volumes being 329. Detailed descrip- 
tions of the vascular elements of so many species, including lists of reagents, 
sections, and material in each case, and also references to literature under each 
species, represent an amount and kind of work that few would care to under- 
ake.— 
Prodrome de la Flore Corse.s5—Notwithstanding the long series of valuable 
contributions to systematic botany, both floristic and monographic, by w 
RIQUET has enriched scientific literature, it is probable that he is chiefly 
* Weumer, C.. Die Pflanzenstoffe botanisch-systematisch bearbeitet chemische 
Bestandteile und Zusammensetzung der sR onan Pflanzenarten Rohstoffe und 
Produkte Phanerogamen. 8vo. pp. xvi+937. : Gustav Fischer. 1911 35 
2 Janssonius, H. H., Mikrographie des PMs der auf Java vorkommenden 
Baumarten; im ‘Aulvoae des genes Ministeriums unter Leitung von Dr. J. W. 
Mott bearbeitet im Anschluss an “‘Additamenta ad cognitionem florae arboreae 
javanicae auctoribus S. H. pesos et TH. Uiesta” Dritte Lieferung. 8vo. 
Vol. II, pp. 161-540. figs. 49. Leiden: E. J. Brill. ro1x. M6. 
3 Bor. GAZETTE 43:345. 1907. 
4 Ibid. 4°7:416. 1900. 
S$ BRIQUET, JoHN, Prodrome de la Flore Corse, comprenant les résultats bota- 
niques de six voyages exécutés en Corse sous les auspices de M. Emite Burnat. 
Vol. I. Geneva: Georg & Co. 1910. | 
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