488 Scientific Intelligence. 



Cruciferce, and the majority of the Brassicaceous tribe, of .which 

 the Mediterranean region is the special home. We have admira- 

 ble illustrations of Henophyton, Coss. and Durieu (which would 

 be Oudneya, so long obscure, except for a slip on the part of 

 Robert Brown in citing a very different plant as a representative 

 of it), Reboudia of the same authors, Hemicrambe of Webb, and 



Cossonia of Durieu, in three species, two of them here figured, 

 all Brassicaceous types, along with curious species of Sin-apis, 

 Frucaria, Fnarthrocaiyus, etc. The remainder are siliculose 

 genera, among them Savignya of the lamented Boisser. The fig- 

 ures were drawn by Cuisin, and are excellent. a. g. 



5. Physiological Botany. I. The Outline of the Histology of 

 Phamogamous Plants. II. Vegetable Physiology / by George 

 Lincoln Goodale, A.M., M.D., Professor of Botany in Harvard 

 University, being vol. II of Gray^s Botanical Text-Book. New 

 York and Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. 1885. pp. 

 499. — Teachers of Botany especially will be glad to know that 

 this long expected volume is at length provided to meet — as we 

 trust it truly will — the demands of the higher instruction in their 

 department. In making this announcement, it is not for us, at 

 this time, to say more than this: that the volume, although mode- 

 rate in size, is encyclopedic for the subject, is methodic and 

 well-proportioned, is admirably illustrated, and will be thought 

 to do credit to the series of which it forms a part. Thirty-five 

 pages of Practical Exercises are bound up with the volume. 

 This, and the Introduction of nearly as many pages oh Histolog- 

 ical Appliances, may give some idea of the pains that have been 

 taken to make this book a vade mecum for the botanical labora- 

 tory. A. G. 



6. Rabenhorsi 's Kryptogamen-Flora, von Beutschland, Oester- 

 reich und der Schioeiz. Vierter Band : Die Laubmoose, von 

 K. Gustav Limpeicht. Leipzig, E. Kummer. 1885. — This new 

 edition, under the name of the late Dr. Rabenhorst's well known 

 work, is truly a new one, of distinct volumes, by different authors, 

 the Pteridophyta by Luerssen, the Fungi by DeBary, Rehm, 

 and Winter, the Marine Algm by Hauck. The latter is complete 

 and has already been noticed here. Dr. Limpricht of Breslau now 

 undertakes the Bryology ; and two fascicles of his volume, of 

 128 pages, 8vo, are before us. More than half of these pages are 

 devoted to structure and other general mattei's ; but the second 

 fascicle begins the Peat-Mosses, and carries them on to the twen- 

 tieth species. The illustrations are in the letter-press and are 

 excellent. a. g. 



7. On the Structure and Dehiscence of Anthers ; by Lecleec 

 dtj Sablon, (Ann. des sc. nat. bot., ser. 7, t. I, p. 97). — The author 

 shows that the walls of the loculi of anthers differ as much in 

 their histological characters as in their form. The cells of which 

 the loculi are composed are very variously lignified. In some 

 there is no appreciable deposit of lignin, but in others the amount 

 is considerable and the distribution of the cells is characteristic. 



