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succeeding editions A careful study of the volume is recom- 

 mended to teachers. They will learn that in hybrid and hybrid- 

 ize the y has the sound of eye, that gamete is accented on the 

 last syllable, and rhizome on the first and that both mcgas and 

 makros may mean large in such words as marospore and 

 megasporophyll. Dictionaries of this kind are not as yet com- 

 mon and it is likely that this volume will find a warm welcome. 

 The price is $4.50 net. 



Although called a "Geography of Plants" a recent book 

 by A. S. Hardy would better be named "The Plants of Geog- 

 raphy." Those who take up this book in the expectation of 

 finding the distribution of any plant or group of plants given 

 are due to l)e disappointed. The book is in fact, not so much 

 an account of plant distribution as it is a description of the 

 surface of the earth with a rather general account of the plants 

 that inhabit each physiographic area. These areas,' moreover, 

 are described without much reference to a central theme so 

 that tile work fails to make a coherent series. The geographical 

 training of the author is evident in the use of a multitude of 

 terms that in themselves do not indicate whether they refer to 

 mountains, lakes, plains or deserts. Frequently the terms used 

 in discussing the vegetation will be equally unintelligible to 

 the general reader as for example, catinga, garigue, nyika, 

 selva restinga. taiga, scree, punyas. etc. One may, indeed, 

 find in this book, whether a given part of the world is covered 

 with forest, scrub, grassland or the like and in a general way 

 what kind of plants occur, but it appears to be far from a 

 geography of plants. The book is published in England by 

 the Oxford University Press whose office. on this side is at 35 

 West 32d St., New York. It is a 12mo. 



"The Music of Wildflowers" is the title selected by John 

 Vaughan. Canon of Winchester, for a collection of botanical 



