﻿Botany 
  and 
  Zoology. 
  353 
  

  

  F. 
  Kunz. 
  — 
  This 
  interesting 
  chapter 
  from 
  Part 
  iii 
  of 
  the 
  Seven- 
  

   teenth 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  (Mineral 
  Resources 
  

   of 
  the 
  United 
  States) 
  has 
  been 
  issued 
  in 
  separate 
  form. 
  

  

  II. 
  Botany 
  and 
  Zoology. 
  

  

  1. 
  A 
  Manual 
  and 
  Dictionary 
  of 
  the 
  Flowering 
  Plants 
  and 
  

   Ferns 
  ; 
  by 
  J. 
  C. 
  Willis, 
  M.A., 
  Director 
  of 
  the 
  Royal 
  Botanic 
  

   Gardens, 
  Ceylon. 
  In 
  two 
  volumes, 
  8vo. 
  pp. 
  653. 
  — 
  In 
  these 
  

   two 
  handy 
  volumes 
  have 
  been 
  brought 
  together, 
  in 
  an 
  orderly 
  

   and 
  convenient 
  form, 
  the 
  principal 
  facts 
  and 
  cardinal 
  principles 
  in 
  

   regard 
  to 
  the 
  more 
  important 
  ferns 
  and 
  flowering 
  plants. 
  It 
  is 
  

   seldom 
  that 
  such 
  discrimination 
  in 
  selection, 
  such 
  skill 
  in 
  arrange- 
  

   ment 
  and 
  such 
  perspicuity 
  in 
  statement, 
  are 
  conjoined 
  : 
  each 
  one 
  

   of 
  these 
  factors 
  is 
  so 
  pronounced 
  in 
  the 
  work 
  in 
  hand 
  that 
  it 
  would, 
  

   even 
  if 
  taken 
  alone, 
  make 
  the 
  treatise 
  valuable; 
  taken 
  together, 
  

   they 
  place 
  it 
  in 
  advance 
  of 
  any 
  work 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  field. 
  

  

  Part 
  second 
  was 
  written 
  first. 
  It 
  comprises 
  descriptions 
  of 
  the 
  

   largest 
  genera 
  and 
  of 
  those 
  of 
  greatest 
  importance 
  in 
  their 
  rela- 
  

   tions 
  to 
  men, 
  together 
  with 
  excellent 
  accounts 
  of 
  the 
  chief 
  orders 
  

   arranged 
  alphabetically. 
  Besides 
  all 
  this, 
  small 
  genera 
  are 
  refer- 
  

   red 
  to 
  and 
  assigned 
  to 
  their 
  proper 
  orders. 
  Morphology, 
  especially 
  

   that 
  which 
  deals 
  with 
  adaptive 
  mechanisms, 
  Classification, 
  Distri- 
  

   bution 
  and 
  Economics, 
  are 
  presented 
  in 
  sufficient 
  detail, 
  and 
  in 
  an 
  

   interesting 
  way. 
  But 
  the 
  author 
  was 
  not 
  content 
  with 
  this, 
  and 
  

   therefore 
  he 
  prepared 
  a 
  supplementary 
  volume, 
  numbered 
  one, 
  

   which 
  constitutes 
  a 
  remarkable 
  introduction 
  to 
  the 
  alphabetical 
  

   portion. 
  In 
  this 
  introductory 
  part, 
  he 
  places 
  the 
  reader 
  in 
  pos- 
  

   session 
  of 
  the 
  essential 
  terminology 
  of 
  modern 
  botany, 
  and 
  carries 
  

   him 
  along 
  through 
  the 
  difficulties 
  presented 
  by 
  variation, 
  and 
  

   evolution 
  in 
  general, 
  until 
  he 
  brings 
  him 
  face 
  to 
  face 
  with 
  modern 
  

   classification. 
  Thence 
  he 
  conducts 
  the 
  reader 
  intelligently 
  through 
  

   the 
  most 
  telling 
  part 
  of 
  geographical 
  botany, 
  and 
  explains 
  the 
  

   relations 
  of 
  adaptation 
  to 
  the 
  whole. 
  

  

  We 
  are 
  not 
  inclined 
  to 
  find 
  fault 
  even 
  with 
  the 
  rather 
  too 
  tech- 
  

   nical 
  aspect 
  of 
  a 
  few 
  of 
  the 
  pages, 
  for 
  we 
  have 
  seen 
  the 
  experi- 
  

   ment 
  tried 
  of 
  giving 
  the 
  work 
  as 
  a 
  whole 
  to 
  a 
  reader 
  not 
  particu- 
  

   larly 
  interested 
  in 
  botany, 
  who 
  wished 
  to 
  glance 
  at 
  the 
  author's 
  

   statement 
  of 
  natural 
  selection. 
  The 
  reader 
  did 
  not 
  leave 
  his 
  

   examination 
  of 
  the 
  volume 
  until 
  he 
  had 
  made 
  himself 
  familiar 
  

   witli 
  the 
  whole, 
  and 
  this, 
  it 
  must 
  be 
  confessed, 
  is 
  a 
  good 
  test. 
  

   The 
  treatise 
  is 
  a 
  distinct 
  and 
  valuable 
  addition 
  to 
  our 
  works 
  of 
  

   reference. 
  g. 
  l. 
  g. 
  

  

  2. 
  Studien 
  ueber 
  den 
  Hexenbesenrost, 
  der 
  Berberitze 
  • 
  by 
  Dr. 
  

   Jakob 
  Eriksson. 
  — 
  In 
  this 
  paper, 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Beitrsege 
  zur 
  

   Biologie 
  der 
  Pflanzen, 
  vol. 
  viii, 
  are 
  given 
  some 
  curious 
  facts 
  in 
  

   regard 
  to 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  Aecidium 
  Magellanicum, 
  which 
  

   was 
  first 
  described 
  on 
  Berberis 
  ilicifolia 
  in 
  South 
  America, 
  but 
  

   has 
  since 
  been 
  observed 
  on 
  species 
  of 
  Berberis 
  in 
  Europe 
  and 
  dif- 
  

   fers 
  from 
  the 
  ordinary 
  Aecidium 
  Berberidis, 
  which 
  is 
  a 
  stage 
  of 
  

  

  