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schools of western New York,” Gray’s Manual being the stand- 
ard text-book. By including the names of the new system in 
brackets wherever they differ from the old, it is hoped to make 
the publication up to date in botanical science, and at the same 
time available to the students in the high schools. 
The tables in the introduction are interesting and suggestive. 
The number of species of flowering plants in the region is 1314, 
and consequently exceeds the number included in Professor Dud- 
ley’s Catalogue as well as Mr. Day’s “ Plants of Buffalo.” Some 
feeling is shown over the fact that Mr. Day reached far enough 
east to include the plants of Bergen Swamp. In the tables of 
comparison the Bergen plants are eliminated from the Buffalo list. 
An outsider might think this unjustifiable manipulation of the re- 
turns. It should be remembered, however, that Rochester and 
Buffalo are rival cities, and are not always on the most neighborly 
terms. The situation would be less amusing had not Rochester 
done very nearly the same thing herself for which she rebukes 
Buffalo. In including the plants of Wayne County and the region 
about Canandaigua Lake, about thirty-six plants were added to 
the list which have not been seen in Monroe County nor in the 
valley of the Genesee River. _ 
However inconsistent it may be for Rochester to expunge from 
the Buffalo list its eastern extension, and at the same time to in- 
clude an eastern extension of its own, every botanist will rejoice 
that the observations of Mr. Hankenson in Wayne County have 
been recorded. Monroe County is not a natural district, and the 
main issue is to include all the facts regarding the distribution of 
plants in that general region. 
The committee gives its authority for each rare plant andthereby 
relieves itself, in part at least, of the responsibility for errors. It 
includes the lists of isolated amateur collectors without seeing their 
specimens or rediscovering their stations. Twelve or thir- 
teen rare plants are included in the catalogue on the authority of 
the list of Rev. Lawrence Holzer, who collected about Rochester 
between 1862 and 1865. One plant, Carex squarrosa, the commit- 
tee declines to give a number. Those included are Nicotiana 
rustica L., Thymus Serpyllum 1.., Alnus serrulata Willd., Quercus — 
iicifolia Wang., Salix fragilis L., Allium vineale L., Trillium sessile 
