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: 



Joseph Charles Arthur 



Purdue University 

 Otis William Caldwell 



University of Chicago 

 William Austin Cannon 



Desert Laboratory 

 Charles Stuart Gager 



Brooklyn Botanic Garden 

 J. Arthur Harris 



Station for Experimental Evolution 

 Burton Edward Livingston 



Johns Hopkins University 

 Francis Ernest Lloyd 



McGill University 

 Daniel Trembly MacDougal 



Carnegie Institution of Washington 



James Bertram Overton 



University of Wisconsin 

 George James Peirce 



Stanford University 

 Charles Louis Pollard 



Staten Island Association 

 Herbert Maule Richards 



Columbia University 

 Forrest Shreve 



Desert Laboratory 

 Volney Morgan Spalding 



Loma Linda, California 

 John James Thornber 



University of Arizona 

 Edgar Nelgon Transeau 



Eastern Illinois Normal School 



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 order. Galley proof is submitted to the author, who should return it as early as 

 possible to the Editor. Reprints should be ordered on a blank for that purpose 

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 are 30 cents each. Volumes 1 to 7 inclusive can npt be supplied; Volumes 10 

 and 11 can be supplied incomplete; Volumes 8 and 9, and Volumes 12 to 17 are 

 $2.50 each. 



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