No. 397] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 77 
A chart showing the blossoming season of the wild-goose plum in 
1898, published in Farmers’ Bulletin 103 of the Department of Agri- 
culture, will be of interest to students of phenology. 
Ten additional species of Sisyrinchium from the Southern States 
are described by Bicknell in the Buletin of the Torrey Club for 
December. 
Captain John Donnell Smith has recently distributed the fifth 
volume of his Exumeratio Plantarum Guatemalensium, etc., to which 
are appended, as heretofore, extra-prints of his later articles pub- 
lished in the Botanical Gazette descriptive of plants of this region. 
The results of a biological survey of Mt. Shasta, California, are 
published by Dr. Merriam as No. 16 of North American Fauna. 
Though avowedly incomplete, his notes on the distribution of Shasta 
plants are of unusual value because of the detailed data given under 
each entry. 
A catalogue of the ferns and flowering plants of South Dakota, 
by Professor Saunders, constitutes Buletin 64 of the Agricultural 
Experiment Station of that state. 
The second fascicle of /cones Bogorienses, published by the Buiten- 
zorg Garden, deals with the Anonacez of that establishment, and is 
written by Dr. Boerlage. 
Apropos of recent attempts to classify the species of Rosa on 
anatomical grounds, M. Crépin publishes some valuable general- 
izations in the thirty-seventh volume of the Buletin of the Royal 
Botanic Society of Belgium. 
A study of the Japanese lacquer tree, Rhus vernicifera, from the 
standpoint of morphology and anatomy, is reprinted by Dr. Möbius 
from the Abhandlungen of the Senckenbergische naturforschende 
Gesellschaft. 
A very curiously fasciated plant of an unnamed species of Cotyle- 
don is described and figured in a teratological paper by Gallardo in 
No. 4 of the Comunicaciones of the Buenos Aires Museo Nacional, 
recently issued. 
Students of hybrid docks will be interested in a paper on the 
North European forms of the genus Rumex, by Murbeck, reprinted 
from Botaniske Notiser for 1899. 
