No.414.] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE 507 
A condensed handbook of the diseases of cultivated plants in 
Ohio, by Professor Selby, constitutes Buletin razr of the Agricul- 
tural Experiment Station of that state. 
A note on Curare, by Bach, is contained in Vol. IV of the Revista 
do Museu Paulista, recently issued. 
A portrait of Luther Burbank accompanies an otherwise illus- 
trated article on his work in plant breeding, in Zhe Land of Sunshine 
for February. 
Drawing for process illustrations forms the subject of a practical 
illustrated article by Husnot, reprinted from Vol. III of the Bulletin 
de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie, which, while it may not be of 
much use to experts, ought to be studied by novices, — whose draw- 
ings are often the horror of editors who have to see them put into 
something printable. 
An ecological study of the vegetation of Rio Grande do Sul, 
Brazil, by Lindman, has recently been published in Stockholm, 
under the auspices of the Royal Scientific Academy of that city. 
The botanical appendix to Vol. XXV of the K. Svenska Veten- 
skaps-Akademiens Handlingar contains a number of papers dealing 
with South American botany. 
No. 2 of Mr. Beadle’s “Studies in Crategus" is reprinted 
from the Botanical Gazette for November, and consists entirely of 
descriptions of species supposed to be new to science. 
A new Helianthus from Florida, Z7. agrestis, is described by 
Pollard in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 
under date of November 30. 
The Podoclulinz, a group of Indian orchids, are monographed by 
Schlechter in the Mémoires de P Herbier Boissier of November 1 5. 
A very useful key to the genera of Basidiomycetes of Vermont, 
with references to scattered literature for the determination of spe- 
cies in the several genera, published in 1899 by Dr. E. A. Burt, of 
Middlebury, has been republished recently, in a somewhat extended 
form, by the Boston Mycological Club. 
Publication of a revised list of New Zealand seaweeds, by Laing, 
is begun in Vol. XXIII of the Zransactions of the New Zealand 
Lnstitute, 
Seedlings, the study of which is now interesting a considerable 
number of persons, form the subject of a paper by Cockayne in the 
Transactions of the New Zealand Institute for 1899, recently issued. 
