No. 415.] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 605 
A list of Alabama species of Cercospora, by Professor Carver, is 
published as Buletin No. 4 of the Experiment Station of the Tuskegee 
Normal and Industrial Institute. 
Diseases of Antirrhinum, caused by CoZetotrichum Antirrihini and 
an undetermined Phoma, are described by Stewart in Bulletin No. 
179 of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 
A committee of the Vermont Botanical Club, with President Ezra 
Brainerd as chairman, has recently published a list of the sponta- 
neous spermatophytes and pteridophytes of that state, as an extract 
from the Twentieth Vermont Agricultural Report. 
A preliminary list of the. flowering plants of North Dakota, by 
Bolley and Waldron, is published as Bulletin No. 46 of the Experi- 
ment Station of that state. 
Under the title * Collectanea ad floram Argentinam," Dr. Kurtz has 
reprinted from Vol. XVI of the Boletin de la Academia de Córdoba a 
series of critical notes on Argentine plants, a number of which occur 
also in the United States. 
A first part, historica! and bibliographic, of a Flora Romana, by 
Pirotta and Chiovenda, constitutes the opening fascicle of Vol. X of 
the Annuario del R. Istituto Botanico di Roma. 
Die Flora der deutschen Schutzgebiete in der Siidsee, by Schumann 
and Lauterbach, is a thick quarto volume, with a map and 23 plates, 
just issued from the Borntraeger press of Leipzig, and furnishes 
another evidence of the scientific activity of the Germans abroad 
as well as at home. 
A seventh part of Koorders and Valeton’s * Additamenta ad cog- 
nitionem flore arborez Javanicz," covering the orders Araliacex 
to Verbenacezm, forms No. 42 of the Mededeelingen uit $ Lands 
Plantentuin. 
The latest nomenclature development is an iui “an den Land- 
tag des Königreichs Preussen," for the suppression of Engler's Das 
flanzenreich as a menace to science. Needless to add that Dr. 
Otto Kuntze is the plaintiff in the case. 
Continued American interest in nomenclature celorum and up- 
heavals is shown by an incisive article by Mr. Fernald in Zhe Botan- 
ical Gazette for March. 
Dr. Cowles’s « Physiographic Ecology of Chicago and Vicinity," i 
recent numbers of Zhe Botanical Gazette, is an interesting e 
