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and its distribution in a general way. Had one or two localities 

 been mentioned at which collectors could find each species, 

 the value of the "Flora" to the traveller making only a short 

 stay in the mountains would have been greatly enchanced, but 

 as "this defect is covered by Miss Farr's "Catalogue" which is 

 a natural, and indeed a necessary complement of the "Flora" 

 it will not be felt to the degree it would have been had the 

 "Catalogue" not been published. The names used by Dr. Brown 

 are those approved by the school of American botanists who 

 have not accepted the "Vienna Rules." No objection could 

 be taken to the use of this system of nomenclature were anv 

 synonymy given but one not familiar with some of these new 

 names will be unable to decide whether they are applied to 

 new segregates or are only new names substituted for the old 

 familiar ones, which will generally prove to be the case. This 

 defect is also remedied, however, by Miss Farr's "Catalogue." 

 In her preface she says candidly: "The nomenclature is in 

 accordance with the best judgment of the author," but "one 

 synonym is given under each species where from familiar 

 usage in the past such a course seems desirable." A strict 

 application of the "Vienna Rules" will result in the changing 

 of very few of Mrs. Henshaw's names and fewer still of Miss 

 Farr's. 



Of Mrs. Schaeffer's illustrations nothing but praise can be 

 said or written. If a very few of the colored illustrations are 

 a little "off color" the fault lies in the difficulty of reprodvicing 

 in color the delicate shades so characteristic of many alpine 

 flowers, and Mrs.Schaeffer's illustrations are much the best the 

 writer knows of in any American work of this kind, and there 

 is not one of them that wovild not serve to identify immediatelv 

 the species it is intended to represent. The half-tones are also 

 excellent and the reproduction on the same plate of an inch 

 measure makes it easy to determine the relative height of the 

 plants reproduced. A comparison is naturally suggested between 

 Mrs. Henshaw's book and that of Dr. Brown and Mrs.Schaeffer, 

 but such a comparison cannot be made. Each is excellent in 

 its own way. Some will prefer one and some the other, but the 

 qualities that make both good, and each in some respects better 

 than the other, are so diverse that no one with the smallest 

 interest in or love for flowers can visit the Canadian mountains 

 and afford to be without either. The publication of two such 

 books is of vastly greater significance than mav appear to the 

 unthinking. They will serve to advertise our mountains and 

 attract visitors not only from the United States but from 

 Europe, and what the average Canadian may not know is that 

 though transportation companies, hotel-keepers and even the 



