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in New York. The clearness and simplicity of the author's exposition 

 bring out the sahent features of the geological and physiographic de- 

 velopment of the vegetation much better than could have been done 

 if he had attempted to tell us all that he knows about New York vege- 

 tation through the medium of the entire ecological vocabulary. Atten- 

 tion has been given chiefly to the distribution of forest trees, and to 

 the sequence of vegetation in bogs and on the sandy areas in various 

 parts of the state. The sub-alpine areas of the Adirondacks, of which 

 so little has been written, are also described. The report is amply 

 illustrated and has a map showing the larger vegetational areas of the 

 state. 



Mr, Edward A, Goldman has published the botanical results of an 

 expedition to Lower California made by himself and Mr, E, W. Nel- 

 son in 1905 and 1906 (Contributions from the National Herbarium, 

 Vol, 16, Pt. 14), The material is given in the form of a taxonomic 

 list, but so full are the notes on all of the conmion plants that the 

 paper constitutes a valuable addition to our extremely scanty knowl- 

 edge of the vegetation of the peninsula and its distributional fea- 

 tures. The forty-seven illustrations accompanying the paper are 

 mostty from photographs of individual plants, but they nevertheless 

 serve to portray the character of the vegetation, as well as to show 

 some of the bizaiTe forms of which it is composed. 



Miss Carohne S. Romer has compiled from the notes of the late 

 Dr. Charles Hugh Shaw some of the results of his explorations in the 

 Selkirk Mountains in 1909 and 1910, and published them under the 

 title. The Vegetation of the Selkirks (Botanical Gazette, June, 1916). 

 It is unfortunate that the death of Dr. Shaw, which occurred in the 

 prosecution of his work, has deprived us of the results of the instru- 

 mentation which he was carrying out in the Selkirks. 



