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r  Am.  Jour.  Pharm 
t   November,  1896. 
follows  :  Name  and  natural  order,  habitat,  part  employed,  physical  characters, 
chemical  composition,  substitutions,  medical  properties,  dose.  As  a  compact 
description  of  the  raw  materials  used  in  the  medicine  of  Mexico,  this  part  is  a 
decided  success. 
In  admitting  chemical  products  the  authors  have  not  allowed  themselves  to 
be  influenced  by  such  substances  having  copyrighted  names;  for  instance,  we 
find  phenacetine,  europhen,  exalgine,  etc.  Some  of  these  remedies,  however, 
have  been  differently  treated,  as  instanced  in  the  case  of  antikamnia,  which  has 
been  placed  among  the  pharmaceutical  preparations  with  a  formula,  as  fol- 
lows : 
Antifebrine  7000 
Sodium  bicarbonate  19*50 
Caffeine  1000 
Tartaric  acid  0*50 
Dose,  20  to  60  centigrammes. 
Antifebrine  is  used  as  a  synonym  for  acetanilid,  the  latter  having  a  place  in 
the  work  under  chemical  products. 
There  are  many  new  formulas  among  the  pharmaceutical  products,  most  of 
which  reflect  credit  on  those  having  that  portion  in  charge. 
The  index  is  very  complete,  Spanish,  Latin  and  English  titles  being  included. 
The  whole  is  a  very  creditable  work,  containing  a  vast  amount  of  useful  in- 
formation, well  worth  the  careful  consideration  of  both  physician  and  pharma- 
cist. 
An  Ieeustrated  Feora  of  the  Northern  United  States,  Canada 
and  the  British  Possessions,  from  Newfoundland  to  the  Parallel  of  the 
Southern  Boundary  of  Virginia,  and  from  the  Atlantic  Ocean  Westward  to  the 
One-hundred-and-second  Meridian.  By  Nathaniel  Lord  Britton,  Ph.D.,  and 
Hon.  Addison  Brown.  In  three  volumes.  Vol.  I,  Ophioglossacese  to  Aizo- 
acese — Ferns  to  Carpet  Weed.    New  York  :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  1896. 
The  appearance  of  the  first  volume  of  the  "  Illustrated  Flora  of  North  Amer- 
ica "  marks  a  distinct  advance  in  systematic  botany,  and  in  the  literature  of 
that  science  in  America.  The  enormity  of  the  undertaking  to  illustrate  in  this 
work  every  known  species  in  the  territory  whose  flora  is  described,  is  realized 
when  it  is  known  that  upwards  of  4,000  species  will  be  thus  presented.  Illus- 
trations of  about  three-fourths  of  these  have  never  before  been  published.  This 
gives  some  slight  conception  of  the  enormous  labor  and  attention  to  details 
necessitated. 
The  size  of  the  volume  (royal  8vo,  and  pp.  612),  style  and  typography  are  all 
commendable.  The  illustrations  are,  in  most  part,  drawn  from  herbarium 
specimens,  and  reduced  considerably  in  size  in  order  to  get  the  work  into  the 
compact  sphere  necessitated  by  the  desire  to  make  this  work  the  standard 
guide  for  collectors  and  all  students  of  our  flora.  Despite  the  facts  of  reduc- 
tion in  size  and  the  absence  of  coloring,  the  plants  are  admirably  presented  by 
line  drawings.  The  stems  are  frequently  shown  as  if  doubled  or  cut,  as  they 
often  appear  in  herbarium  specimens,  and  the  illustrations  of  the  characteristic 
structural  features  of  the  species  are  especially  to  be  commended. 
The  drawings  of  such  characters  as  the  scales  in  Gramineae,  and  the  achenes 
and  bristles  in  illustrating  the  Cyperacese,  are  generally  well  executed,  and 
