No..384.] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 963 
ifornia Academy of Sciences, publishes a series of articles on The 
plants of San Nicolas Island ; New species of Cnicus from southern 
Colorado and Utah ; The Colorado alpine species of Synthyris; The 
manzanitas of Mt. Tamalpais ; Two species of Eriodictyon, heretofore 
included under Æ. tomentosum; and New species of Pacific Coast 
plants. Four excellent detail plates add to the value of the paper, 
which is brought out as No. 3 of the current botanical volume of the 
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 
Mrs. Alice Carter Cooke, who, with her husband, has passed a 
considerable time in the Canary Islands, publishes popular articles 
on their flora in the Buletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for July and 
the Popular Science Monthly fr October. The last-mentioned article 
is attractively illustrated. 7 
An address given by Professor Miall before the Royal Institution 
last February, on “ A Yorkshire Moor,” is published in Mature, Nos. 
1503-4. It contains an ecological account of the principal moor- 
plants, and is illustrated by a number of habit and histological fig- 
ures, which aid in rendering intelligible the modifications from normal 
structure by which these plants are adapted to their peculiar mode of 
ife 
The genus Nigella is revised by Terracciano in a paper’ reprinted 
from the Bollettino del R. Orto Botanico di Palermo, Vol. i, Nos. 3 and 
4, and Vol. ii, No. 1. 
An account of the Capparidaceous genus Boscia, to which is 
appended an analytical key to the species, based on leaf anatomy, is 
concluded in the Bulletin de P Herbier Boissier of September 14. The 
paper is to be illustrated by fourteen plates, the publication of which, 
however, has been deferred until the next number of the Buletin. 
The extra-nuptial nectaries of Bombacex form the subject of an 
elaborate memoir by Dr. Achille Terracciano in the second fascicle 
of the current volume of Contribuzioni alla biologia vegetale, a publi- 
cation of the Botanic Institute of Palermo. Several plates contain 
figures showing the distribution and structure of the organs. 
Gillenia trifoliata, the Indian physic, is written of and figured in 
the American Journal of Pharmacy for October, in which is also con- 
tained the first of a series of tables for the qualitative examination 
of powdered vegetable drugs, by Henry Kraemer. 
1 Terracciano, Achille. Revisione monografica delle specie del genere Nigella. 
Palermo, 1897-8. 8vo, 62 pp. 
