lOOO The American Naturalist. [November, 
cusses in Section IV. the entry on the chart of three naval stations made 
by the Portuguese cartographer upon this chart, — a central one on the 
island of Sa<nt Yago (Cape Verde Islands), a second near the Island 
of Brazil (Coast of Venezuela), and a third near the Island of Andros 
(Bahama Archipelago). In Section V. the reader is invited to direct 
his attention toward a very peculiar coast-line, drawn west of the Is- 
land of Cuba, and running from South to North, and given the correct 
reading of twenty-two names inscribed upon this coast, which names 
in the above-mentioned first sketches of America had been written in 
a way challenging sound interpretation, and which names now, on the 
original chart, come forth in full linguistic purity. Two of these 
names are those of two Portuguese dignitaries, and personal friends of 
King Joam II., with whom Columbus, a shipwrecked man, had conversed 
when arriving at Lisbon. Two other names are those of Cozumel and 
of Campeche, names known to appertain to ancient as well as to 
modern Yucatan. The circumstance that the three coasts of the 
peninsula were straightened out to one single line by the draughtsman 
of the chart is satisfactorily explained. In Section VII., " Identifica- 
tions," the author shows that when comparing the characteristics 
proper to the physical features of the three coasts of Yucatan, they 
will be found to tally upon both the Portuguese and the modern chart, 
and that all of them present themselves in their natural order of suc- 
LTnfortunately, Dr. Valentine's article was not published all atonce,- 
but at long intervals. — A. S. Gatchet. 
Schroeter's Fungi of Silesia.^— The third volume of Dr. 
Ferdinand Cohn's Kryptogamen Flora von Schlesien is to be devoted 
to the Fungi, which Dr. Schroeter is to elaborate. Of this work, be- 
gun in 1885, and issued in ''Lieferungen " from time to time, Part I. 
is now complete. The author gives ninety pages of general descrip- 
tion and introductory matter, in which (i) the history of fungology 
in Silesia, (2) the distribution of fungi in Silesia, (3) the general mor- 
phology and biology, and (4) the system of classification of the fungi, 
are discussed. 
Bock appears to have been the first to catalogue the fungi of the 
region included in Schroeter's book : he enumerated twelve species in 
1546. Caesalpinus, in 1583, and Porta, in 1592, enumerated about 
twenty fungi, while Clusius, in 1601, brought the number up to one 
hundred and two species, representing some forty-seven genera. Little 
1 Die Pilze Schlesiens. Bearbitet von Dr. J. Schroeter. Erste Halfte, Breslau, 1889. 
