No. 392.] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 677 
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č BOTANY. 
The New York Botanical Garden. — The recently issued fourth 
Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden’ carries the first volume 
of that publication to page 294 and Plate VIII. In addition to 
administrative reports for the year 1898, the present number contains 
the following botanical contributions: Britton, “ Description of a New 
Stonecrop [Sedum Mexicanum] from Mexico”; Rydberg, “ The Ces- 
pitose Willows of Arctic America and the Rocky Mountains ”; Small, 
‘‘Undescribed Plants of the Southern United States”; and Nash, 
“New Grasses from the Southern United States.” 
The Chelsea Botanical Garden. — According to Natural Science for 
May this garden, which was founded about 1673 by the Apothecaries’ 
Company, and has of late proved a greater burden to the society than 
they wished to carry, has been turned over to the trustees of the 
London Parochial Charities, who undertake to provide £800 annually 
for its maintenance. It is a matter for congratulation that this 
historic establishment has thus been saved. 
Corn Plants. —In an attractively gotten up little volume? Mr. 
Sargent presents for young people some of the important facts con- 
cerning the cereals used for breadstuffs. 
Botanical Notes. — Dr. Boerlage has begun the publication of a 
quarto catalogue of the phanerogams (with the exception of herbs) 
cultivated in the great garden at Buitenzorg, Java. The first fascicle, 
of 59 pages, contains the orders from Ranunculacee to Polygalacex, 
inclusive. 
A revision of the genus Listera is published by Karl M. Wiegand 
in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for April. 
Nos. 4 and 5 of the current volume of the Memoirs of the Boston 
Society of Natural History are partly botanical and consist, respec- 
tively, of papers on “ Localized Stages in Development in Plants and 
Animals,” by R. T. Jackson, and “ The Development, Structure, and 
Affinities of the Genus Equisetum,” by E. C. Jeffrey. 
1 Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden, vol. i, No. 4. Issued April 13, 
8vo 
s Sérgent, F.L. Corn Plants, their Uses and Ways of Life. Boston and New 
York, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 32 f., ix + 106 pp. 
