No. 390.] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 547 
To the Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society for 1898 
Mr. W. W. Ashe contributes a paper on the dichotomous group of 
Panicum in the eastern United States. Seventy-four species — a 
considerable number of them new in the belief of the author —are 
described. 
Biological notes on Indian bamboos are contributed to the January 
number of Zhe Indian Forester by Sir Dietrich Brandis. 
The toxic effects of sleepy grass, Stipa robusta, are being discussed 
by the medical and pharmaceutical press. The Buletin of Pharmacy 
for March contains an interesting résumé of some of the recent obser- 
vations. 
In Nos. 8 and g of his “Studies in the Cyperacez,” reprinted 
from recent numbers of the American Journal of Science, Mr. Holm 
treats of the genera Scleria and Lipocarpha. 
Evergreens, and how they shed their leaves, is the title of Zzacher’s 
Leaflet No. 13, of the College of Agriculture of Cornell University. 
The histological generic characters of the North American Taxa- 
cez and Conifer are well presented by Professor Penhallow in 
a paper reprinted from the Zransactions of the Royal Society of 
Canada. 
Even greenhouses, when at all extensive, have their own sponta- 
neous flora. Inthe Verhandlungen des Botanischen Vereins der Provinz 
Brandenburg for 1898 P. Hennings enumerates a considerable num- 
ber of fungi observed in the plant houses of the Berlin botanic 
garden, and finds not a few of them new to science. In Rhodora 
for May, M. Hollis Webster also publishes a similar article, dealing 
with fungi observed in the United States. 
Collecting and preserving marine alge, a subject of interest to 
every visitor to the seashore, is treated at considerable length by 
Professor Setchell in Ærythea for March. 
Berg und Schmidts Atlas der Officiellen Pflanzen, of which a second 
edition is being issued under the care of Drs. Meyer and Schumann, 
has completed the third volume, which contains Pls. XCV-CXXXII. 
In the Pharmaceutical Journal, beginning with the issue for February 
25, Mr. F. Ransom is publishing a series of articles on the origin and 
meaning of the names of medicinal plants — these being arranged 
in the familiar sequence of Durand’s Index. 
