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general characteristics; isolation and preparation of seed proteins; basic and 
acid properties of proteins; solubility of vegetable proteins; precipitation of 
vegetable proteins; denaturing of vegetable proteins; physical constants of vege- 
table proteins; products of hydrolysis of vegetable proteins; classification of 
vegetable proteins; some physiological relations of vegetable proteins to the ani- 
mal organsim and the biological relations of seed proteins to one another. 
The plant physiologist will welcome this work expecially, for most discussions 
of proteins deal in the main with animal proteins.—WILLIAM CROCKER. 
MINOR NOTICES 
A new catalogue of Connecticut plants.—The Connecticut Botanical Society, 
through a committee of six of its members, has issued recently a Catalogue of the 
flowering plants and ferns of Connecticut.s The publication has been modestly 
termed a catalogue, but it is far more than a mere list of plants of the'state. The 
scientific and common names of the plant are given, as well as limited synonomy, 
habitat, distribution, and citation of exsiccatae; and often a note on the economic 
import of the species is added. 
In the sequence of families and in nomenclature the work accords with the 
seventh edition of Gray’s Manual. A statistical summary gives the following 
composition of the flora: number of families 134, genera 621, species 1942, varieties 
and forms 286; a total of 2228 recognizably distinct plants; and approximately 
four-fifths of these are indigenous to the state. 
The work is an important one to the taxonomic student; and the collaborators 
have done a commendable service to their state in recording, in available and use- 
ful form and with a high degree of accuracy and completeness, their intimate 
knowledge of the Connecticut flora.—J. M. GREENMAN. 
North American Flora.°—Volume XXV, part II, is devoted to the Geraniales, 
as follows: Tropaeolaceae by G. V. NAsH, Balsaminaceae and Limnanthaceae 
y P. A. Rypperc, Koeberliniaceae by J. H. BARNHART, Zygophyllaceae by 
A. M. Van and P. A. RypBerc, and the Malpighiaceae by J. K. Sma. Four 
hew genera of the Malpighiaceae are proposed, namely, Adempores Callaeum, 
Rosanthus, and Banisteriopsis. Several new species are descri ese are 
distributed among the following genera: Impatiens (3), Fagonia (3), Guatacu 
(3), Kallstroemia (6), Mascagnia (2), Hiraea (1), Triopteris (1), Tetra anaes 
(2), Banisteriopsis (2), ee (2), Stigmaphyllon (1), Thryallis (1), and 
Malpighia (5). —J. M.G N. 
5 Graves, C. B., Eames, E. H., Bissett, C. H., ANDREWs, L., Harcer, E. B., 
and WraTHERBy, C. A Committee of the Connecticut Botanical Sochity Catalogue 
of the flowering plants a8 ferns of Connecticut growing without cultivation. Bulletin 
< - State Geological and Natural History Survey. 8vo. pp. 569. Hartford, Conn. 
orth American Flora, vol. XXV, part II, pp. 89-171. New York Botanical 
a. 1910, 
