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Botanical News.—Botanists everywhere will be glad to learn 
that the veteran collector, A. H. Curtiss, of Jacksonville, Florida, has 
resumed the collection and distribution of herbarium specimens. All 
who have seen the fine specimens which Mr. Curtiss prepared in bis 
sets of North American plants distributed ten or more years ago need 
not be told of their superior quality. He now offers in this “Second 
Distribution of Plants of the Southern United States” two “ series” 
of two hundred species each, at sixteen dollars per series. It is to 
be hoped that this distribution will be given the encouragement it 
deserves. 
The experiment of publishing monthly the cards for the card-index 
to the Bibliography of American Botany has been most successful so 
far as the work itself is concerned. The printing has been excellent, 
and avery good quality of card has been used. We trust that bota- 
nists who have not already done so will enter their subscriptions soon 
for this most useful help in the botanical library. The annual sub- 
scription is five dollars, and the cards are supplied by the Cambridge 
Botanical Supply Company, Cambridge, Mass. 
Among the excellent text-books of botany which have recently ap- 
peared in Germany, two deserve especial mention, viz.: Dr. K. Giesen- 
hagen’s Lehrbuch der Botanik, a pretty volume of 335 octavo pages, 
from the publishing house of E. Wolf, of Munich, and Dr. K. Schu- 
mann’s Lehrbuch der Systematischen Botanik, of 705 octavo pages, 
published by F. Enke, of Stuttgart. Both are freely illustrated with 
good engravings. They will be helpful to those engaged in teaching 
botany in colleges and universities. 
Oels’s Experimental Plant Physiology, as translated by D. T. Mac- 
Dougal, of the University of Minnesota, is a most useful little 
book. A somewhat extended trial with students in physiological 
botany shows it to be well adapted for laboratory use. 
We would like to commend to the botanists of this country, espe- 
cially to those who are engaged in teaching in the better class of col- 
leges and universities, that most excellent journal, Garden and Forest, 
edited by Professor Charles S. Sargent, of Harvard University. 
Coming as it does every week, it brings fresh matter to the reader at 
frequent intervals, and there is not a number in the whole year which 
does not contain much botanical matter. 
Our three strictly botanical journals, The Bulletin of the Torrey 
Botanical Club (now entering its twenty-second volume), The Botan- 
ical Gazette (entering its twentieth year), and Erythea (in its third 
year), have continued their steady ways the past year, in spite of 
