REVIEWS. 



Alpine Flora of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, by 

 Stewardson Brown. Illustrated with 31 water-color drawings 

 and 91 other illustrations by Mrs. Charles Schaeffer, pp. 352. 

 Putnam's Sons, New York. $3.00. 



Contrilnttions to a Catalogne of the Flora of the Canadian 

 Rocky Mountains and the Selkirk Range, by Edith M. Farr. 

 Contr. from the Bot. Lab. of the Univ. of Penn. Vol. III. pp. 

 1-88. Bot. Dept., Univ. of Penn. $1.00. 



Among those who visit the Canadian mountains the greater 

 number perhaps go chiefly to revel in the unrivalled scenery of 

 the Rockies and Selkirks or to climb the peaks that tempt 

 them on every hand. But there are few who can spend even one 

 day in the mountains without feeling the desire to know at least 

 the common names of some of the beautiful wild flowers that 

 fill the woods and meadows and cover the mountain slopes 

 with masses of brilliant color. Mrs. Henshaw's "Mountain 

 Wild Flowers of Canada"* wih long remain the "popular guide 

 to the names and descriptions of the flow^ers that bloom above 

 the clouds." Written by a good botanist and one who is an 

 ardent lover of flowers it appeals to the Nature lover in a way 

 that no "Flora" or "Catalogue" can do, and Mrs. Henshaw 

 seems always to have found the exact word to describe the 

 characteristic beauty of the plant she may be writing about, 

 a matter of greater difficulty than is realized' by one who has not 

 attempted it. 



While Prof. Brown's book is very far from being a complete 

 "Flora" of the Rocky Mountains it is strictly "scientific" as 

 far as it goes, and the amateur botanist who so dearly loves 

 to "analyse "and "classify" the plants he collects wiU find that 

 he can with this book identify all the commoner species at 

 least, that he will find in the Rockies or Selkirks, for though the 

 title covers only the Rocky Mountains the matter includes the 

 Selkirks as well. The average tourist, however, will prefer Mrs. 

 Henshaw's simpler, if not very scientific, arrangement of the 

 alpine flowers in groups according to their color, as by this 

 means he can in a very short time learn the names of the plants 

 he has collected. Beginning with a general key to the families, 

 Prof. Brown gives briefly and clearly the characters of each 

 family and of the genera into which they are divided. The 

 number of species in each genus is as a rule so small that the 

 characters separating these are not given in the form of a key 

 but will be found in the descriptions of the species themselves. 

 These descriptions are with very few exceptions accurate and 

 not unnecessarily long. The habitat of each species is also given 



* Reviewed in the Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. XX, p. 114. 



