No. 401.] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 451 
Farmers’ Bulletin No. rog of the Department of Agriculture at 
Washington deals with saltbushes, — plants adapted to salt or alkaline 
regions, — and is written by Dr. P. B. Kennedy. 
The Bulletin de Herbier Boissier, under the editorial care of M. 
Autran, curator of the herbarium which was founded by Boissier and 
is maintained near Geneva by M. Barbey, suspends publication on the 
conclusion of Vol. VII. It is to be continued by a series of octavo 
Mémoires, the first of which, a continuation of Professor Schinz's 
* Pflanzenwelt Deutsch-Südwest-Afrikas," was issued on Jan. 15, 
1900. 
An interesting account of the one-time London Botanic Garden, 
established by Salisbury in 1807, and the later history of which 
seems to have passed into oblivion, is given by W. Roberts in the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle of February 3. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle of February 24 contains a figure of the 
monument to David Douglas in the parish churchyard at Scone and 
a transcript of the inscription which it bears, as well as a portrait 
and short biographical sketch of this interesting man, of whom it 
has been said that no other collector has ever reaped such a harvest 
in America, or associated his name with so many useful plants, and 
that nobody, not even Fortune, has conferred so much honor on the 
Royal Horticultural Society, and so much benefit to horticulture in 
general as regards the importation of plants. 
A good portrait of Professor A. S. Hitchcock, who is this year 
Director (or President) of the Académie Internationale de Géo- 
graphie Botanique, is issued with the March Buletin of that organi- 
zation. 
The first fascicle of Vol. XVII of Za Cellule has as frontispiece a 
portrait of the late Professor J. B. Carnoy, and contains the address 
delivered at his funeral by Dean Gilson of the University of Louvain. 
Portraits of the Tulasne brothers form the frontispiece to Vol. 
XVI of the Bulletin of the Société Mycologique de France. 
Dr. Willis, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Peredeniya, 
Ceylon, calls attention to the new research station of that important 
establishment, in the Botanical Gazette for March. The facilities of 
the garden are freely offered to competent investigators. 
The March number of the Journal of the New York Botanical 
Garden contains an interesting account of the herbarium of the New 
York Garden and of its new home. 
