1910] CURRENT LITERATURE 385 
Vegetationsbilder.°—The sixth and seventh parts of the seventh series 
Karsten and ScHENCK’s well-known work reproduces twelve photographs of 
typical plant formations in East Bolivia, with text by TH. Herzoc. The illustra- 
tions include studies from the rain forest, the xerophytic mountain slope, the 
scrub, and desert societies. The series is completed in an eighth part illustrating 
the plant formations of Danish West Greenland in six photographs, with descrip- 
tive text by M. Riku. The illustrations include type areas from birch forest, 
heath, bog, arctic meadow, and polster societies. 
e eighth series of the same work is begun with six plates from photographs 
by Franz SEINER, who also contributes the descriptive text. The plates are of 
the same superior quality which characterizes the entire series, and illustrates the 
vegetation of the dry steppes of northern and central Kalahari. Small leguminous 
trees form a conspicuous part of the vegetation, and among the species illustrated 
are Copaijera coleosperma, C. mopane, Acacia haematoxylon, A. eclada, 
detinens, and A. horrida, the last overgrown with Loranthus Dregei.—Gero. D. 
FULLER. 
Das Pflanzenreich.7—Part 40 consists of a monographic presentation of the 
Papaveraceae by Dr. FRIEDRICH FEDDE. About 80 pages, devoted to a general 
account of the family, precede the taxonomy. The author. divides the family 
into three subfamilies, namely Hypecoideae, Papaveroideae, and Fumarioideae; 
€ first two only are elaborated in the present volume. Twenty-six genera are 
treated, to which are referred over 400 recognized species and numerous varieties; 
of these about 30 species and approximately 70 varieties are new to science. 
New species are described in Glaucium, Papaver, Platystemon, and Roemeria. 
Excellent keys precede the enumeration and description of species; bibliography 
and exsiccatae are very fully given; and numerous illustrations materially supple- 
ment the text. The work is an oe and authoritative treatise of this 
interesting group of plants. —J. M. Gre 
- Symbolae Antillanae.*—The second fascicle of volume VI of this scholarly 
work continues the presentation of the Solanaceae by O. E. Scuutz, in whic 
38 species of Solanum are recorded, 4 species and 5 varieties being new to science. 
The genus Cestrum is represented by 19 species. Professor URBAN contributes an 
article on the high mountain flora of Sto. Domingo, and A. CoGNIAux begins a 
detailed consideration of the Orchidaceae, treating 26 genera to which are referred 
176 species; new species are described in Spiranthes, Pseudocentrum, Stelis, 
© KaRsTEN, G., AND SCHENCK, H., Vegetationsbilder. Series vii, parts 6-8. 
Text and pls. 31-48; Series viii, part 1. Text and pls. 1-6. 4to. Jena: Gustav 
Fischer. 1910. ee rt 
ENGLER, A., Das Pflanzenreich. Heft 40 (IV. 104). te ieeioaie: -Hy pecoideae 
et Papaveraceae- pen inden von FRIEDRICH FEDDE. pp. 430. figs. 43 (532). 
BAD gs Englemann. 1909. M 21.60. 
AN, I., Symbolae Antillanae seu fundamenta florae Indiae Occidentalis. 
Vol. VI, tee 2. pp. 193-432. Leipzig: Fratres Borntraeger. 1909. 
