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REVIEWS. 
The Flora of the Ceylon Littoral. 
(A. G. Tansley and F. E. Fritsch : New Phytologist, 
Vol. IV., Nos. 1, 2, and 3, 1905.) 
This is an account of the coast and mangrove flora of Ceylon by 
Messrs. Tansley and Fritsch, who recently worked at Peradeniya. The 
coast flora is divided into the Pes-capræ-Formation which extends to a 
few feet of high tide mark, and the Barringtonia-Formation or Beach 
Jungle, the characteristic plants in these sections being figured 
and described. The photographs of mangrove plants, Bruguiera 
gymnorhiza, Rhizophora conjugata, Sonneratia acida, Chrysodium 
( Acrostichum) aureum, and others are given, as well as accounts of the 
vegetation of the river at Matara and Balapitiya. 
H. W. 
Morphology of Angiosperms (Morphology of 
Spermaiophytes, Part II.). 
By John Merle Coulter and Charles Joseph Chamberlain. 
(London, 1904.) 
This work is issued in the form of a book of nearly 350 pages, 
profusely illustrated. It deals with the general classification of the 
Angiosperms, geographic distribution, fossil forms, phylogeny, and 
comparative anatomy of this group. Separate chapters are devoted to 
fertilization, the endosperm, and the embryo ; and the information given 
should be useful to students of flowering plants. 
H. W. 
The Comparative Anatomy and Phylogeny of the 
Coniferales, Part il., Abiefineæ. 
By Edward C. Jeffrey. 
(Boston, January, 1905.) 
A considerable amount of attention has been given to the resin 
canals in the different genera and the transfusion tissue. The 
Abietineæ should, according to the author, be regarded as a very 
ancient order of the Coniferales, and may even be the oldest living 
representatives of this group. The occurrence of resin ducts in the 
woody tissues and the cortex is regarded as primitive for the group. 
The group is divided into—(1) the Pineæ (Pinus, Picea, Larix, 
Pseudotsuga) and (2) the Abieteæ (Abies, Pseudolarix, Cedrus, Tsuga). 
H. W. 
