No. 395] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 909 
Loesener has issued in separate form a paper entitled “ Plante 
Seleriane, die von Dr. Eduard Seler und Frau Caecilie Seler in 
Mexico und Centralamerica gesammelten Pflanzen,” reprinted from 
recent numbers of the Buletin of the Boissier Herbarium. 
In a recently published address delivered in November, 1898, 
before the University of Catania, Professor P. Baccarini discusses 
the character and history of the Mediterranean flora. 
Productive activity in the biological departments of most of the 
greater institutions of learning is becoming manifest in the increas- 
ing publication of the results of research work in the form of “ con- 
tributions” and the like. The latest of these is the Meddelanden 
Jran Stockholms Högskolas Botaniska Institute, of which the first vol- 
ume, for 1898, contains ten papers dealing with a variety of botanical 
subjects. Professor Lagerheim has done well for the preservation 
of these papers in binding them together with a collective titlepage 
and table of contents. 
The very active botanical garden at Buitenzorg has recently com- 
menced the publication of a new Bulletin de I’ Institut Botanique de 
Buitenzorg, the first number of which contains interesting data on the 
organization and work of the garden. 
An interesting catalogue of the trees and shrubs in the arboretum 
and botanic garden at the Central Experimental Farm, at Ottawa, 
Canada, is published by Dr. Saunders and Mr. W. T. Macoun as 
Bulletin 2, second series, from the Experimental Farm. It shows 
that of a total of 3071 named varieties which have been tested, 1434 
have proved hardy, and 361 half hardy, while 737 have not been 
planted long enough to warrant an opinion as to their hardiness. 
With this list as a guide, residents of Canada and our Northern 
States should be able to increase the number of woody plants 
employed for the decoration of their grounds with a fair prospect of 
success. 
The geographic source of the principal woody plants of the 
German trade is discussed by Professor Drude in the last volume 
of the Jahresbericht of the Dresden Society “ Flora.” 
In an article recently published in the Géartnerisches Centralblatt 
and translated for the September Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 
Club, Dr. Kuntze argues for the adoption of 1737 as the starting 
point for generic names in botany, and 1753 for specific names, with 
