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- does not amount to much. It is shown that at one time it was 
covered with a forest, and suggestions are made as to how they 
can be reforested. Pinus ponderosa and Pinus divaricata are men- 
tioned as species most likely to flourish. 
In the “ Catalogue of Species” about six hundred are enum- 
erated, only one of which is new. This is Carduus Plattensis, repre- 
sented bya rather indifferent plate, instead of the fine ones usu- 
ally found in these publications. 
“No. 4, issued November 23, 1895. Report on a Collection 
of Plants made by J. H. Sandberg and assistants in Northern 
Idaho in the year 1392, by John M. Holzinger.” 
Taking into consideration the equipment of this expedition, 
and the means at its command we would expect much valuable 
information as the results of the five months work for which it 
was commissioned. On the contrary, the specimens themselves 
are about all the department has to show for its outlay. 
Instead of a discussion of the geographical features of this in- 
teresting country, its resources, the distribution of species and 
other information which it is especially designed to bring out in 
these publications, there is a bare list of camping places, and a 
statement of how long the party staid at each camp. Even this 
meagre summary is not correct. It is stated that “the second 
‘camp was located in the neighborhood of Lake Waha, some twenty 
miles south of Camp 1. The party remained in that vicinity from 
May 20 to May 28, collecting the plants numbered 194 to 263. 
The Lake Waha region and Wiessner’s Peak were the principal 
localities visited from this camp.” 
Now Lake Waha and Wiessner’s Peak are separated by at 
least 75 miles of pretty rough country, and without the aid ofa 
substantial pair of wings no member of the party could have gone 
there and returned in eight days. Wiessner’s Peak, at the head of 
navigation on the St. Joseph river, 30 miles from Harrison, 
was visited from Camp 8, located at Farmington Landing, on Lake 
Coeur d’Alene, opposite Harrison, by the assistants of the expedi- 
tion. : “ 
The two plates are excellent, but on page 212 a new species — 
is described under the name of Cardamine Leibergit, while the ac- 
companying plate bears the name reticence cinta The 
