No. 397.] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 75 
unusual merit from the fact that the plants yielding the useful prod- 
ucts are not named in the vague way too frequent in such discussions, 
but have been subjected to the critical identification of a systematic 
expert. 
Besides the above-mentioned papers by Dr. Rose, the contribution 
contains a short article by Prof. L. F. Henderson, characterizing two 
new plants from Idaho, and another by Professor Coulter and Dr. 
‘Rose, describing and figuring an interesting new umbelliferous genus, 
Hesperogenia, from Mt. Rainier. HER 
Bailey’s Botanizing.!— Under the title of Botanizing, Professor 
Bailey of Brown University has issued a revised and enlarged edi- 
tion of Zhe Botanical Collector's Handbook. Few of the methods 
taught are likely to lead to measurably poor results, though experi- 
ence will teach profitable modifications of some of them to any boy 
with Yankee ideas, and most of the suggestions are likely to be 
worth many times the cost of the book to a beginner. T. 
Botanical Notes. — Important recent papers on seed anatomy are: 
Pammel, ** The Histology of the Caryopsis and Endosperm of Some 
Grasses ” (Transactions Acad. Sci. of St. Louis, VIII, No. 11); Pammel, 
“ Anatomical Characters of the Seeds of Leguminosz, chiefly Genera 
of Gray's Manual” (loc. cit., IX, No. 6) ; and Schlotterbeck, “ Devel- 
opmental History of Important Seeds. The Anatomy of the Cotton 
Seed and the Development of its Seed Coats" (Pharmaceutical 
Archives, II, No. II). 
A catalogue of the spontaneous hybrids of the European flora, by 
E. G. Camus, is being published in current numbers of the /ourna/ 
de Botanique. 
The most important recent publication on American fossil plants 
is Professor Ward's * Cretaceous Formation of the Black Hills as 
indicated by the Fossil Plants," extracted from the Nineteenth Report 
0f the United States Geological Survey. The paper is profusely illus- 
trated, largely by reproductions of photographs made directly from 
the specimens. 
In the advance sheets for December 19 of Consular Reports, 
Edward H. Thompson, United States Consul at Progreso, gives 
Some interesting information concerning sisal fibre, from which it 
! Botanizing. A guide to field collecting and herbarium work. 
Providence, Preston & Rounds Co., 1899. 
