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llic scvcntcen-syllablc'd name * * * '['\■^^. iMassachiisctts 

 I InrticnlUiral Society has issued an excellent list of W'ildflower 

 lileralnre. * * * Most of the worth-while hooks are in 

 it. * * * 'pl^^. "i-'ii-st !■)(>(. k lit' Grasses" I)\- Aj^nes Chase 

 is announced for publication i)y the Macniillans. * * *If 

 the author can make the idenlilications of the grasses easy her 

 hook ouj^ht to l)e one of tlie ■'he>t sellers". * * * How- 

 e\er. a hook in the hand is worth two at the publisher's 

 antl it is time we turned our attention to some of those in hand. 

 From the Oxford Unixersity Press, comes a neat little 

 \-olume enlilled "Junior Rotanv" by T. W. W'oodhead. This 

 is desii^ned for u--e in i'rilisli schools where a larger volume is 

 impracticable and is a good illustration of how tlie\- do things 

 "on the other side." In the main the subjects discussed are 

 >imiliar to those that make u[) the contents of .\merican schcwl 

 books on the same subject, though the latter- usually touch upon 

 scxeral phases of botany that are not mentioned in the present 

 bonk. V)\ substituting .\nieriean plants for the I'.uropean spe- 

 cies used for illustration the book would be ((uite suitable for 

 class work in tlie I'nited States, "junior P)otany" is describ- 

 ed as a simplified and abridged edition of the author's "Study 

 of Plants" and lias a])parently been written with a view to en- 

 able the beginning student to classify his specimens. This aim 

 of botanical texts, it nia\- be said, has largely been discarded 

 in .\merica in favor of studies in ecology, the lower forms of 

 plant life, economic plants, and the like. The bc^ik will l)e of 

 interest to all teachers for the liglit it throws on the meth(x1s 

 of teaching botany abroad. It is published by the Oxford 

 l'ni\ersity Press, American IWanch. New ^'ork. 



Four more parts of ( ). Penzig's "Pflanzen-Teratologie" 

 ha\ e been received from the press of (lebruder P.orntrager, 

 Berlin, Germany. l-"arlier numbers of this work gave a ver\ 



