No. 406.] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 829 
Zeitschrift, with the first of a series of papers by Kuntze and von 
Post, and promises to be far-reaching if not final. 
In Science for July 13, Dr. C. A. White contends for the use of the 
terms *'epitropism," *'apotropism," *'hypercotyl" and “ hyper- 
nasty," in place of the words *geotropism," *apogeotropism," 
“epicotyl,” and *epinasty," now in common use. 
Mr. Gannett's excellent paper on * The Forests of the United 
States " is separately published from the Zwentieth Annual Report 
of the United States Geological Survey. 
The flora of Ohio receives important consideration by Professor 
and Mrs. Kellerman in University Bulletins 27 and 28 of the botani- 
cal series of the Ohio State University. 
C. A. Purpus is giving an account of the succulents of the La 
Salle Mountains of Utah, in current numbers of the Monatsschrift 
für Kakteenkunde. 
An anatomical study of variegated leaves, by Mlle. Rodrigue, 
constitutes the greater part of No. 17 of the Mémoires de lAerbier 
Boissier. 
Bulletin 107 of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, 
devoted to cotton, contains, among other matters, chapters on the 
varieties of cotton, its improvement by hybridization and by selec- 
tion, and its diseases, with a list of fungi recorded as growing on it, 
and a bibliography of its diseases. 
The Rocky Mountain Robinia neo-mexicana is figured in Curtis's 
Botanical Magazine for July. 
Bryophyllum crenatum, of Madagascar, a species related to the 
well-known life-plant, is figured in the Revue Horticole for July. 
Mamillaria vivipara is figured in Curtiss Botanical Magazine for 
June. 
Professor von Wettstein is publishing a study of certain North 
American gentians in current numbers of Oesterreichische Botanische 
Zeitschrift. 
The well-known poisonous properties of Primula obconica form the 
subject of an article by Nestler in Heft V of the current volume of 
Berichte der deutschen botanischen Gesellschaft. 
Helenium tenuifolium is figured in Curtiss Botanical Magazine for 
