No. 409.] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 71 
G. P. Burns publishes an illustrated anatomical study of the 
Stylidiacee in ora for October. 
The purple cone-flowers, Echinacea purpurea and E. angustifolia, 
have been hybridized for cultural purposes, as appears from a note, 
with illustrations, by Kohler, in Die Gartenwelt for October 20. 
Curtis's Botanical Magazine for November contains illustrations of 
Erigeron leiomerus and Cypripedium guttatum, of the North-American 
flora. 
A revision of the species of Platanus by Usteri appears in No. 20 
of the Mémoires de P Herbier Boissier. 
A short popular article on Monstera deliciosa, with photographic 
illustrations, by Theodosia B. Shepherd, is contained in The Land of 
Sunshine for September—October. 
A review of the Rocky Mountain Melanthacee by Rydberg 
appears in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for October. 
Several species, and one genus, Stenanthella, split off from Stenan- 
thium, are described as new. 
K. M. Wiegand presents a revision of the tenuis group of Juncus, 
in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for October. Thirteen 
species are recognized. 
A well-illustrated “ Short Account of the Big Trees of California " 
constitutes Buletin No. 28 of the Division of Forestry of the United 
States Department of Agriculture. 
Keys to species of Abies and Picea based on leaf anatomy are 
given in a paper by H. B. Dorner, reprinted from the Proceedings of 
the Indiana Academy of Science for 1899. 
The distribution of Chilian Coniferae forms the subject of a paper 
by Karl Reiche in the current volume of the Verhandlungen des 
deutschen wissenschaftlichen Vereins of Santiago. Six genera, Podocar- 
Pus, Dacrydium, Saxegothea, Araucaria, Fitzroya, and Libocedrus, 
are considered. 
The variations in Lycopodium clavatum, and their bearing on phy- 
logeny, are discussed in a paper illustrated with three plates, by R. 
A. Robertson, in Part IV of the current volume of Transactions and 
Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 
The second fascicle of de Wildeman and Durand's * Contributions 
à la flore du Congo," published as a part of the Annales du Musée du 
. Congo, of Brussels, has recently been completed by the issuance of a 
