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case beside the Housatonic River and in the other beside one of its 

 tributaries. 



Sikne Armeria, L. A frequent escape at Seymour. 



Lychnis Chalcedonica, L. South bury. 



Draba Caroliniana, Walt. Dry sandy soil near the Housatonic 

 River, i£ miles above Zoar Bridge, Oxford. 



Arabis conjinis, Wats. Lisbon. Bank of the Quinebaug River about 

 1 mile below Jewett City. Here are found also Juncus Greene/, Oakes 

 & Tuckerm., Antennaria Canadensis, Greene, and what appeared to 

 be Polygala Nuttallii, Torr. & Gray, but the material was too scanty 

 for certain determination. 



Agrimonia parviflora, Soland. Southbury. This species should be 

 credited to Mr. C. H. Bissell who was first to discover it. 



Euphorbia corollata, L. Two plants in grass-land, Oxford. 



Hottonia inflata, Ell. Orange. One-fourth mile northeast of the 

 village. Previously discovered by Mr. C. K. Averill. 



Stachys palustris, L. Oxford. One mile south of the village. 

 Oxford, Connecticut. 



In his Outlines of Botany 1 Mr. Leavitt has produced a textbook 

 of more than ordinary interest. The work is based upon Dr. 

 Gray's Lessons in Botany, a book which in its several editions has 

 enjoyed great popularity and a continuous usefulness for more than 

 sixty years. This unparalleled success of the Lessons has doubtless 

 been due to its scientific accuracy, remarkable terseness, and unex- 

 celled lucidity, rather than to its pedagogical method. This method 

 was essentially dogmatic throughout. Indeed, the Lessons were 

 prepared at a time when this form of teaching was the approved 

 one, and when it was still possible to state dogmatically many points 

 in morphology, which now in the light of more recent investigation 

 have to be qualified by restriction and exceptions. During the last 

 three decades there has been a great change in the methods of 

 presenting botany in our better high schools. The memorizing of 

 definitions from a book is no longer the aim. There is less study of 

 abstract morphology and less attention to external form. Classifica- 



1 Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Class-room by R. G. 

 Leavitt, A. M. 8vo, 272, pp. Prepared at the request of the Botanical Depart- 

 ment of Harvard University, American Book Co., New York. 



