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We cannot too highly recommend to those who are studying 

 the forms of plants, Goebel's important contribution! on the sub- 

 ject, which has recently been translated into English. The Ger- 

 man edition was issued in 1898, and presents the best modern 

 opinion which has lost nothing at the hands of the translator. The 

 present volume — the first part of the whole work — is not only 

 complete, as regards the topics touched upon, but fairly exhaust- 

 ive in the attention given to each. Its scope includes such mat- 

 ters as formation and differentiation of organs; relationships of 

 symmetry in shoots, leaves and flowers; juvenile forms of organs; 

 reversions; malformations, and their significance; the plant's 

 response to external stimuli, etc. There are one hundred and 

 thirty illustrations, and the book is well printed on good paper 

 and well bound. It is hoped that the second part, dealing with 

 special organography, may soon be issued. 



A new feature has been introduced into mycological books by 

 the publication in Professor Atkinson's " Mushrooms"! of a large 

 number of illustrations from copyrighted photographs of fungi, 

 mostly life size. The specimens so photographed have been 

 labeled and preserved, making it possible at any time for students 

 to refer to the originals. The book is of great value from these 

 illustrations alone, but the lucid and comprehensive text accom- 

 panying them by such an authority as Professor Atkinson leaves 

 little to be desired. The first three chapters treat of the form and 

 development of the mushrooms, then follow five chapters on the 

 mushrooms proper, and eight on what may be termed the allies — 

 the puff -balls, stinkhorns, morels, hedgehog fungi, etc. Several 

 chapters are also included on the chemistry of mushrooms, collect- 

 ing, preserving, selecting for the table, and cooking. The chap- 

 ter on cooking was written by Mrs. Sarah Tyson Rorer. There 

 are also keys to the species and a glossary. Upwards of two hun- 

 dred of the more common species of higher fungi are treated, and 

 there are more than two hundred illustrations and several colored 

 plates. The book is the best we have yet seen for the American 

 collector of mushrooms. The edible and poisonous species are 

 clearly distinguished, the places in which they grow indicated, 

 and the species themselves accurately described. 



^Organography of P ants. By Dr. K. Goebel. Authorized Enerlish 

 edition by Isaac Bayley Balfour. Part I., General Organography. Oxford: 

 The Clarendon Press, 1900. 8 vo., pp. 270. 



X Studies of American Fungi; Mushrooms, Edible. Poisonous, etc. 

 By George Francis Atkinson. Ithaca, N. Y.: Andrus & Church, 1900. 8 vo., 

 pp. 275. Price, $3.00. 



