‘ 
Botany and Lootogy. 415 
: A. G. 
4. A Catalogue of the Native and Naturalized Plants of the 
} . Day. Buffalo, 
1883. pp. 215, 8vo.—This is published by the Buffalo Society of 
“ presents the names of all the plants which have been detected 
and other interesting details. It has set a good example 
including, upon the basis. of real investigations, all the crypto- 
ayons plants of the region which have been fairly determined. 
date of publication. The phenogamous species are 1,217, in 106 
orders, Imost exactly half of them are in the ten larger orders, 
and are distributed as follows: 
Composite, 143. Labiate, 39. 
Cyperaces, 105. anunculacee, 36 
Graminex, Crucifere, 
Rosacew, 52. Orchidacee, 34. 
Leguminose, 45. Liliacex, 31. 
Labiate would not hold this position except for its adventive 
and naturalized representatives, c e up one-third of its 
ames. + & 
5. Die Pflanzenkrankheiten; by Professor Dr. B. Frank. — (In 
vol. i of Schenk’s Handbuch der Botanik, Trewendt, Breslau.) 
243 pp., 46 ills.—This is one of the important monographs Avner 
ia o 
me of these investigations have been of the most 
and untrustworthy character, and the conclusions must be receiv 
