
676 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. | [Vor. XXXVI. 
Dr. White publishes a note on the use of Solanum heterodoxum in 
Mexico for the curdling of milk, in Science of December 13. 
A long list of decorative plants hardy in South Dakota is given 
by Mr. Hansen in Bulletin No. 72 of the experiment station located 
at Brookings. 
An interesting illustrated article on rattan and its preparation for 
the market, by Preyer, is published in Der Zropenpflanzer for January. 
In Bulletin No. 6, dealing with Capsicums, by Mr. Tracy, the 
Bureau of Plant Industry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 
begins the publication of a series of catalogues of the trade names 
of American vegetables. 
In the concluding fascicle of Vol. XIV of the eighth series of 
the Annales des sciences naturelles, botanique, M. Van Tieghem sums 
up the results of his studies on the ovule as a basis of classification 
in the flowering plants, giving at the end a résumé of the vegetable 
kingdom classified on this basis. 
Dalla Torre and Harms’ Genera Siphonojamarum in the fourth 
fascicle reaches the genus Cochleanthera of the Guttiferz. 
Engler and Prantl’s Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien in Lieferung 211 
reaches Isoetacez among the pteridophytes and in Lieferung 212, 
Pottiaceze among the bryophytes. 
An account of the dates at which the parts of Elliott’s Botany of 
South Carolina and Georgia were issued is contributed to the Decem- 
ber Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club by Barnhart. 
The double fascicles 14-15 and 16-17 of Ascherson and Graeb- 
ner’s Synopsis der Mitteleuropüischen Flora deal respectively with 
Rosacez (in part) and Graminez (in part). 
In Coste's Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, the second vol- 
ume of which is now in course of publication by Klincksieck of 
Paris, the description of each species is accompanied by an excellent 
small cut, showing habit and often essential detail. 
. An anatomical study of Hippocrateaces, connected with the 
occurrence of caoutchouc in that family, by Fritsch, occupies Heft 5 
of Vol. XI of the Beihefte zum botanischen Centralblatt. 
The aid afforded by calcium oxalate crystals in the identification of 
vegetable drugs is the subject of a paper by Kraemer in the Journal 
of Pharmacology for December. 
