490 The American Naturalist. [June, 
every plant." The book before us is written in twenty-three 
chapters, devoted to such topics as Plant Worship, Plants in 
Witchcraft, Plants in Fairy- Lore, Love-Charms' Dream- 
Plants, Plant Language, Plants and their Legendery History, 
etc., etc. A i^v^ titles have a faint botanical color, as: Plants 
and the Weather, Plant Names, and Plants in Folk-Medicine, 
but It is very faint, indeed. Under the first, which certainly 
admits of at least a semi-scientific treatment, we have such 
rhymes as 
Who sovveth them earlier, he soweth too soon. 
And 
1 bearing, most plentiful wis 
ames the treatment is better, but 
: drop into poetry again, e. g. : 
Now, although this is not a botanical book, and while to a 
botanist many of its pages seem trash, yet for those for whom 
It was written the work is well done, and will be welcomed by 
many a reader. — Charles E. Bessey. 
GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. 
Marsh on Cretaceous Mammalia.'— Professor O. C. 
Marsh has been successful in obtaining the teeth and bones oi 
a number of species additional to the Menisco'cssus conquistus 
Cope, discovered by Wortman in 1882. The remains described 
have been found separate and fragmentary, and they indicate 
several species of small size belonging to the Multituberculata 
' Discovery of Cretaceous Mammalia. By O. C. Marsh. Amer. Journal Sci. 
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