1913] Book Notice 19 
In the dune region of Lake Co., Indiana, I have also found speci- 
mens of V. pedata, but in my experience it is very rare, while the 
variety is very abundant, and is doubtless the most common violet 
in that region.— EpwiN D. Hutt, Chicago, Illinois. 
A SECOND LOCAL RECORD FOR RyYNCHOSPORA MACROSTACHYA 
Torr.— As the only recorded locality for this fine species within the 
Local Flora area is Great Pond, South Weymouth, Massachusetts, 
its discovery at another pond about four miles further north is of 
interest. I found about half a dozen dried up plants, still retaining 
achenes, about the north shore of Great Pond, in Braintree, on 6 Nov., 
1912, and collected several. 
Perhaps the most interesting feature in the New England distribu- 
tion of this plant is its occurrence in the vicinity of Amherst, Massa- 
chusetts, at Leverett Pond (one of the type localities) and Belcher- 
town, evidently as a migrant up the Connecticut River, although no 
intermediate stations are known as yet; a specimen collected at Lev- 
erett Pond by Edward Hitchcock is in the Gray Herbarium. It is 
rather common on Cape Cod, occurs in Rhode Island and at a few 
coastwise stations in Connecticut, as well as at Monroe and Woodbury 
near the Housatonic, and extends along the coast to Florida and 
Texas, and up the Mississippi Basin to Indiana and Kansas in the 
broad V characteristic of so many coastal-plain species.— Sipnry F. 
BLAKE, Stoughton, Massachusetts. 
Dr. C. A. DarLinG's HANDBOOK OF THE WILD AND CULTIVATED 
PLANTS! presents in compact form four general, dichotomous keys, 
as follows: (1) to the wild plants and cultivated trees and shrubs which 
flower in March, April, and May; (2) to the wild plants and culti- 
vated trees and shrubs which flower from June to November; (3) to 
the wild and cultivated trees and shrubs in autumn; and (4) to the 
cultivated herbs and potted shrubs. These keys are followed by a 
brief synopsis of all the species treated, arranged in their several fami- 
lies and also keyed out in a dichotomous manner. The author has 
availed himself of the most obvious distinctions; thus, in beginning 
his key to the usually formidable family Compositae, there is no strug- 
gling with achenes or pappus-bristles, style-branches or anther-tips, 
1 By Chester Arthur Darling, A. M., Ph. D., Instructor in Botany, Columbia Uni- 
versity. 12mo., 264 pp. New York, 1912. Published by the author. 
