CURRENT LITERATURE 
MINOR NOTICES 
North American slime moulds.—A new and revised edition of MACBRIDE’S' 
North American slime moulds has just been published. As the subtitle states, 
it is “‘a descriptive list of all species of Myxomycetes hitherto reported from 
the continent of North America, with notes on some extra-limital species.” 
- The original edition was reviewed in this journal.2 The necessity for a second 
edition has given the author the opportunity not only to correct certain errata, 
but chiefly to incorporate new information developed by the investigation of 
the last twenty years. The book is primarily for American students, and is 
certainly an adequate presentation of this interesting group, serving the same 
purpose in this country that Lister’s Mycetozoa does in England.—J. M. C. 
Some elementary texts.—An interesting textbook for Indian high schools 
has been prepared by KENovER. It is interesting both in presentation and 
material, and adapted to high school students of India. Of course it is neces- 
sarily brief, but it develops an interesting approach to the plant kingdom. It 
is based upon the conviction that the best way to know plants is to grow 
them, and therefore emphasis is placed upon the school garden as the important 
laboratory for beginners. The plants selected as illustrations are in general 
those of general occurrence in India. This little book will interest teachers of 
botany in other countries. 
A similar text for English schools has been prepared by WoopHEAD.* 
This is an abbreviation and simplification of the author’ s The study of plants. 
It also emphasizes the study of living material, experimental work, and out- 
Both are doubtless adaptations to the status of high school education in the 
two countries.—J. M. C. 
*Macsriwe, T. H., The North American slime moulds. 8vo. pp. xvii+299. 
pls. 23. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1922. 
2 Bot, GAz. 29:74. 1900. 
3 Kenoyer, L. A., Plant studies for ne aie schools. pp. 160. figs. 67. The 
Christian Literature Sockéty, Al ba 
4 WoopHEaD, T. W., Junior ane pp. 210. figs. rgo. Oxford: Clarendon 
Press. 1922. 
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