THE PLANT WOELD 231 



PAN IN VERMONT. 



Extracts from the poem of Rudyard Kipling in Country Life in America, 

 Christmas Annual. Copyright, 1902, by Rudyard Kipling. 



It's forty in the shade to-day, the spouting eaves declare ; 

 The boulders nose above the drift, the southern slopes are bare ; 

 Hub-deep in slush Apollo's car swings north along the Zod- 

 -iac. Good lack, the Spring is back, and Pan is on the road ! 



(What though his phlox and hollyhocks are half a month demised ? 

 WTiat though his ampelopsis clambered not as advertised ? 

 Though every seed was guaranteed and every standard true — 

 Forget, forgive they did not live ! Believe, and buy anew !) 



Serene, assenting, unabashed, he takes the orders down : — 

 Blue Asphodel on all our paths, a few true bays for crown — 

 Uucankered bud, immortal flower, and leaves that never fall — 

 Apples of Gold, of Youth, of Health — and — Thank you, Pan, that's all. 



Notes of Current Literature. 



Two excellent local floras, received by us some weeks ago, have been 

 forced to await the leisure of the editors for examination. One is a 

 flora of the the town of Southington, Conn., consisting of the ferns and 

 seed plants growing without cultivation in the town and its vicinity, 

 prepared by Charles H. Bissell and Luman Andrews, and published by 

 the State Board of Education. It is a well-arranged list, prefixed by a 

 discussion of the geographic and physiographic features of the region, 

 and supplemented by a large map. The text contains very exact state- 

 ments of habitat, and is therefore useful to the ecologist for reference. 

 The authors use the nomenclature of Gray's Manual. 



A more elaborate work is the "Manual of the Flora of Jackson 

 County, Missouri," by Kenneth K. Mackenzie, assisted by B. F. Bush 

 and others. It is a cloth-bound volume, and contains descriptions of 

 and keys to all the included genera and species. Twenty-two new 

 species and varieties are here published for the first time, and the nom- 

 enclature is that of the Rochester code. Like the other book, this is 

 prefaced by a description of the region under consideration ; and there 

 is a glossary of technical terms. The treatment of the species follows 

 modern lines, and the work is to be commended not only to the stu- 

 dents in Jackson County, but to botanists throughout the floral area 

 with which it deals. C. L. P. 



