No. 388.] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 349 
The Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for January contains 
No. 5 of Professor Nelson’s papers on New Plants from Wyoming, 
and a description and figure of Lacinaria cymosa, by H. Ness. 
Thirty poisonous plants of the United States are described and, in 
large part, figured, by Chesnut in Farmers Bulletin No. 86 of the 
Department of Agriculture. 
Of interest to botanists is a portrait of Sir W. T. Thiselton Dyer, 
K.C.M.G., the able director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, published 
in the Gardeners Chronicle of January 7. 
In the Berichte der deutschen botanischen Gesellschaft of December 
28, Ule speaks of the adaptation of some Brazilian Utricularias to 
their mode of life, which is peculiar, since they live in the leaf 
rosettes of certain Bromeliacez. 
Under the title Plantes Mattogrossenses, Dr. J. Barbosa Rodrigues, 
director of the botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro, publishes descrip- 
tions and figures of a considerable number of new or little known 
species. 
The Bermuda Juniper and its allies are disentangled by Dr. 
Masters in the Journal of Botany for January. While the Jamaican 
tree is referred to /. Virginiana, our common red cedar, the tree of 
Bermuda, /. dermudiana, is held to be specifically distinct. 
The Iowa Sedges are catalogued, with synonymic notes, by 
Professor Cratty, in the December number of the Buletin of the 
Laboratory of Natural History of the lowa University. The list 
includes 114 species and varieties, pertaining to 10 genera. Ten 
species are figured. 
Cerastium arvense, var. oblongifolium, a form of a common enough 
weed, is christened The Starry Grasswort and recommended for 
decorative cultivation by Professor Arthur in Bulletin No. 74 of the 
Purdue University Experiment Station. 
The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society for January con- 
tains the following articles of botanical interest: Economic uses of 
bamboos, and list of bamboos in cultivation ; Water-lilies and hybrid 
water-lilies, the latter by the well-known raiser of such hybrids, 
M. Latour-Marliac. 
The Botanical Gazette begins its twenty-seventh volume with an 
interesting address on the vegetation of tropical America, by Pro- 
fessor Warming, whose studies of Brazilian plants are well known. 
