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sent previously undescribed species and are accompanied by complete 
analyses of flowers and fruits. Four of this set are of new species 
of Ferns. These plates with others illustrating the flora of Guatemala 
were issued on large paper by Mr. Smith in 1906. In this set of 
thirty-four drawings are found some of the best examples of Faxon’s 
work. 
In the ten volumes of Garden and Forest (1888-1898) are published 
two hundred and eighty-five of Faxon’s drawings. Among them are 
eight drawings of insects and their destructive work. Among the 
plants there is a large variety of subjects, including trees, shrubs, 
herbaceous plants and Ferns. Many previously undescribed species 
and one genus (Robinsonella, named in honor of the editor of this 
Journal) are found among these drawings. Among them, too, will 
be found the first illustrations of several plants which have now become 
common in gardens, and the only illustrations which have been pub- 
lished of many rare and interesting North American shrubs. Among 
these drawings are figures of thirteen North American species of 
Aster, Irises, Phloxes, Barberries, and a number of Japanese trees and 
shrubs. Seventeen of these illustrations of Japanese trees were 
reproduced in Sargent’s Forest Flora of Japan. 
In the two volumes of Trees and Shrubs (1902-1913) two hundred of 
Faxon’s drawings are published. They illustrate new or little known 
ligneous plants, including two previously undescribed genera, Faxo- 
nanthus in honor of Edwin Faxon, and Grypocarpa, and one hundred 
and three previously undescribed species, principally from North 
America, Mexico, Central America, China and Japan. 
In 1905 six hundred and forty-two of Faxon’s drawings were pub- 
lished in Sargent’s Manual of the Trees of North America, and in the 
last year of his life he was at work on some additional drawings for a 
new edition of this work. Between 1899 and 1913 thirteen of Faxon’s 
drawings were published in Rhodora, and three of his drawings of 
Ferns will be found in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. Dur- 
ing thirty-four years, from 1879 to 1913, nineteen hundred and 
twenty-five of Faxon’s drawings were published. 
Faxon never cared to write for publication. His modesty, I think, 
deterred him from sharing with the public the information on many 
subjects of which he was master, and I can find only the following 
from his pen: On page 52 of the second volume of Garden and Forest 
there is a translation by him of a part of Professor Coutinho’s paper 
