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coastal plain species which are localized on the sandy soil near Lake 
Champlain:— such species as Woodwardia virginica, Pinus rigida, 
Polygonella articulata, Lupinus perennis, Polygala polygama, Bartonia 
virginica, Asclepias amplexicaulis, Artemisia caudata, ete. In general 
style and typography the Flora of Burlington follows the Vermont 
Botanical Club’s well known Flora of Vermont and like it represents 
intimate knowledge of the region covered. 
In 1860 Hervey’s Plants found in New Bedford and its Vicinity was 
published, in 1891 it was revised, and now its ever enthusiastic author, 
undaunted by the passage of fifty-one years since his first publication, 
brings his work to date as a revised edition of the Flora of New Bedford 
and the Shores of Buzzards Bay.! The Flora is modeled upon the former 
editions and happily contains the familiar and always interesting 
Procession of the Flowers. The author is to be congratulated upon the 
new edition of his standard work and upon a sustained activity which 
should be an inspiration to all lovers of out-of-door avocations.— 
M. L. F. 
New ENGLAND TREES IN WINTER.— The latest handbook of the 
trees is a practical volume by A. F. Blakeslee and C. D. Jarvis? 
the text by Dr. Blakeslee, the illustrations by Dr. Jarvis. The keys 
look as if they would be usable and the plates are good halftones from 
wonderfully fine photographs showing the winter aspect of the tree, 
the bark, fruit and buds. In the technical genera only the commoner 
species are treated — for instance in Salix only S. alba, var. vitellina 
appears, while the (to most botanists) much more interesting S. nigra, 
S. pentandra, S. lucida, S. balsamifera, S. discolor, S. rostrata, and S. 
viminalis are unmentioned. But, with this omission of the more 
difficult or local trees understood at the beginning, the book cannot 
fail to be a popular one — its plates alone will be a delight to every- 
one who enjoys good illustrations. The body of the text is obviously 
the result of considerable compilation, the dimensions of the trees 
and the distribution of the species being “taken with little change 
from Dame & Brooks’ Handbook." The latter book, at the date 
of its issue in 1901, was our most authoritative source of information 
on these points; but in view of the activity of New England botanists 
during the past decade, the reviewer cannot help wondering that an 
author or compiler in 1911 should ignore the extensions of ranges 
made since 1901. For instance, with information now available 
the detailed ranges of Pinus Banksiana, P. resinosa, P. sylvestris, 
1 Flora of New Bedford and the Shores of Buzzards Bay with a Procession of the 
Flowers. Revised edition, by E. W. Hervey. New Bedford, Mass., 1911. 8vo. 
137 pp. 
? New England Trees in Winter by A. F. Blakeslee and C. D. Jarvis. Storrs 
Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 69. Storrs, Connecticut, June, 1911. 
8vo. pp. 303-576, plates. 
