The Plant World 



A Monthly Magazine of General Botany 



Established 1897 



Edited by 



Forrest Shreve 



Published by 



The Plant World Association 



COMPOSED OF THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS: 



JoBKPB Charles Arthcr 



Purdue University 

 OTiaWiLr.iAM Caldwell 



University of Chicago 

 WiLLiAU Austin Cannon 



Desert Laboratory 

 Charles Stuart Gager 



Brooklyn Botanic Gardfn 

 J. Arthur Harris 



Station for Experimental Evolution 

 Burton Edward Livingston 



Johns Hopkins Uclverslty 

 Francis Ernest Lloyd 



M?Glll University 

 Daniel Trembly MacDouoal 



Carnegie Institution of Washington 



James Bertram Overton 



University of Wiseonsin 

 George James Peirce 



Stanford University 

 Charles Louis Pollard 



St8len Island AssoclatloD 

 Herbert Maule Richards 



Columbia University 

 Forrest Shreve 



Desert Laboratory 

 VoLNEY Morgan Spalding 



Loma Linda, California 

 John James Thornber 



University of Arizona 

 Edgar Neiaon Transeau 



Eastern Illinois Normal School 



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