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[Reprinted from Bulletin of the Turkey Botanical Club, April 24, 1897.] 



Reviews. 



Flora of the Soiithcrjz United States. By A. W. Chapman. Third 



Edition. Pp. 655. Cambridge, 1897. 



It is now over thirty years since the first edition of Chapman's 

 Southern Flora was given to the pubhc; and during this time the 

 author has had the satisfaction of seeing his work become and re- 

 main the standard text-book of systematic botany for the region 

 involved. At an advanced age, Dr, Chapman has just brought to 

 completion a third edition of his flora, successfully capping a 

 botanical career covering nearly three-quarters of a century, and 

 he is entitled to the hearty congratulations of botanists through- 

 out the country, by whom he is universally held in affection and 

 esteem. 



The book has been entirely reprinted from fresh plates, and the 

 typography and superior grade of paper employed are altogether 

 satisfactory. A hasty proof-reading has however resulted in a 

 number of unfortunate typographical errors, as Pimperiulla, A)ie. 

 morella, etc. It is gratifying to observe that the substance of the 

 long appendix to the second edition has been properly incorpo- 



