Nos. 451-452.] NOTES AND LITERATURE. 



that he would have heartily subscribed to everything in it as published. 

 The book is essentially a list of the spermatophytes or flowering 

 plants of the State, arranged in the phylogenetic sequence of Engler 

 and Prantl, with keys to the orders, famiHes, genera and species, 

 and copious indexes to Latin and vernacular names. The nomen- 

 clature adopted is apparently based on the Rochester code, a com- 

 mon name is given for each species, with a reference to its descrip- 

 tion in Britton's Manual, and its figure, if one is published, in 



embodied in the keys ; and each is accompanied by a brief indica- 

 tion of habitat, general geographic distribution, and an enumeration 

 of the counties in which it occurs in Pennsylvania. As a determina- 

 tion hand-book, it is one of the best local floras thus far published. 

 Its defect — if it be one— lies in the omission of all synonymy, 

 leaving a very large proportion of the plants under names different 

 from those by which they were known to the author during the 

 greater part of his life and by which his contemporaries referred to 

 them in their classic publications, and without intimation to the 

 novice that this is the case or direct indication of any means by 

 which the two may be correlated,— the Manual referred to being of 



w. r. 



The ^0^xxvi^ls.— Bota7ucal Gazette, February : — Darwin, "On a 

 Self-recording Method applied to the Movements of Stomata " ; 

 Holferty, "The Archegonium of Mniiim luspuiatum'' ■ Lewis, 

 "Studies of some Anomalous Dicotyledonous Plants"; Shriner and 

 Copeland, "Deforestation and Creek Flora about Monroe, Wfs." ; 

 Snow, "The Effects of External Agents on the Production of Root 

 Hairs"; Duvel, "Preservation of Seeds Buried in the Soil"; 

 MacMillan, "Cumaphytism in Alaria." 



Botanical Gazette, March : — Garber, "The Life History of Ricdo- 



Smith, "Undescribed Plants from Guatemala and other Central 

 American Republics — XXV " ; Thom, Cra/err/Ius taxophilus a 

 New Species of Thelephoraceu' " : Grcennian. Notes on South- 

 western and Mexican Plants." 



Botanical Gazette, April : — Bennett, " Are Roots Aerobic ? " ; 

 Nelson, "Contributions from the Rocky Mountain Herbarium — 

 V"; Lyon, "The Evolution of the Sex Organs of Plants"; 



