NOTES AND COMMENT 



The nineteenth volume of Contributions from the National Her- 

 barium is completely taken up by the 800-page Flora of New Mexico 

 by E. 0. Wooton and Paul C. Standley. Much arduous exploration 

 lies at the foundation of this catalogue of the 3000 species of plants which 

 are found in the valleys, plains, deserts, scrub, forest, and alpine summits 

 of this highly diversified state. The usual features of keys to genera 

 and species, citations of synonyms, and statement of type locality are 

 to be found. The statements of range within the state are given in 

 considerable detail and are usually followed by a general statement as 

 to the habitat and zonal distribution of the plant. Critical notes are 

 frequent, and there are also many remarks on the human interest that 

 attaches to certain plants, but is usually severed in works of this char- 

 acter. The Flora contains no description of the vegetation or regional 

 features of the state, such as was found in the floras of Alabama and , 

 Washington, published in this series. It is unfortunate that such 

 matter is omitted, for it would be of interest to very many people who 

 will never have occasion to consult the book as it stands. In this case 

 the omission is supplied by the bulletin of Bailey on the Life-Zones of 

 New Mexico (North American Fauna, No. 35), and in part by the 

 bulletin of Wooton on Factors Affecting Range Management in New 

 Mexico (Department of Agriculture, Bulletin 211), in which there is a 

 fine series of illustrations of types of New Mexican vegetation. 



In 1908 Mr. George B. Sudworth published a volume of over 400 

 pages entitled Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope, a book which has been 

 extremely useful to the foresters and botanists of the Pacific region by 

 reason of its very full descriptions, detailed statements of range, and 

 its information regarding growth and climatic requirements. It was 

 the intention of the Forest Service in 1908 to follow this publication by 

 similar ones for the Rocky Mountain region and for the eastern states. 

 This plan has been modified to the extent that these regions will be cov- 

 ered by a series of bulletins, each of which will deal with a small group 

 of genera. The first of the Rocky Mountain series has recently appeared 

 (Department of Agriculture, Bulletin 207), covering the cypresses and 



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