1008 The American Naturalist. [November, 
tough and hard; the latter are evidently unfit for forage, while thus 
far no animals have shown any disposition to eat any part of the plant. 
While it blossoms freely late in the summer, it has not produced 
seeds. It is slowly spreading under the ground by its creeping root. 
stocks —CHARLES E. Bessey. 
Saccardo’s Sylloge Fungorum.—The eleventh volume of this 
work has recently appeared. It contains 4220 additional species, 
scattered through the whole of the fungi. Many of the descriptions 
are rather badly mutilated, often being reduced to little more than 
mere measurements. This suggests that the author may have become 
weary of his work, and that we have in this volume the last of the 
Sylloge. The total number of species thus far described in the eleven 
volumes of the Sylloge is 42,383.—Caarurs E. Bessey. 
North American Fungi.—The thirty-third century of Ellis and 
Everhart’s “ North American Fungi” appeared not long ago. The 
former excellence of this standard distribution is fully maintained in 
the present volume. The more important genera represented are Cer- 
cospora (5 species), Phyllosticta (8 sp.), Puccinia (3 sp.), Ramularia 
(4 sp.), Septoria (11 sp.), and Valsa (5 sp.). 
Hough’s American Woods.—This distribution of wood sections 
has reached Part VI, bringing the number of species thus far repre- 
sented up to about one hundred and fifty. The part before us is de- 
voted to the woods of the Pacific Coast. The species represented are 
Rhamnus purshiana, Aesculus californica, Cercidium torreyanum, Proso- 
pis juliflora, Cercocarpus parvifolius, Garrya elliptica, Arbutus menziesii, 
Arctostaphylos pungens, Chilopsis saligua, Platanus racemosa, Quercus 
garryana, Quercus agrifolia, Quercus densiflora, Castanopsis chryso- 
phylla, Salix levigata, Libocedrus decurrens, Sequoia gigantea, Sequoia 
sempervirens, Taxus brevifolia, Torreya californica, Pinus lambertiana, 
Pinus ponderosa, Pinus contorta, Picea sitchensis, Pseudotsuga taxifolia. 
These sections should find a place in the collections of every botanical 
department of the universities of the country, and for the forestry 
departments of our agricultural colleges they are indispensible. 
HARLES E. BEssEY. 
Seymour’s Grasses and Grass-like Plants of North 
America.—The second half-century of this useful collection was sent 
out during the summer. The numbers from 51 to 61, inclusive, in- 
clude sedges, the remainder being true grasses. The specimens are 
