Testa r stesso. we, 
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Montia Chamissonis is given as M. Chamisoi i (Ledeb.) Durand 
and Jackson instead of Greene. Chatiissonis 3 is the correct form 
It looks like quibblin 
The worst feature of the book is the uneven recognition of 
species. The joint authorship of a book is never a success. 
Robinson’s conception of species is excellent, also that of Eaton, 
Ames and Hitchcock, but whoever wrote the Cyperacez ind some 
other lower orders seems to have had no conception of Species at 
all, about as bad as that of Greene and Rydberg. Stich a oe ribs: 
as Scirpus rebrotinctus has no standing at all. The _ Ol 
Carex is con using. In comparing Carex with its entinekt in 
Britton’s Flora it erie: greatly. No one would imagine that C. 
teretiuscula in Britton’s Flora and C. diandra in the Manual 
(synonyms) were ae same species. The engravings in the es. 
ual are much inferior, poorly etched and poorly printed. In t 
matter of the engravings I take direct issue with A es Cate 
in Rhodora 10 207 where she speaks of the engravings with un- 
stinted praise. 
One of the most commendable things in the book : bass ig- 
noring of the split genera of Britton, Rydberg and Sm For 
some years the Brittonians have raised a great Phe and ne about 
the new and original work done by them in splitting up the Gray- 
an genera. A recent repetition of this is in the Torrey Bulletin 
_ where the new Manual was reviewed through Bronx Park glasses. 
Anything published by Harvard is like a red flag before a bull to 
Bronx Park. Whenever Harvard sneezes Bronx Park has a fit, 
and it is a standing joke among botanists. T his critique says of 
_ the work of Ames among the orchids that it fails to recognize the 
recent studies of Rydberg in Habenaria, ctc., as though ‘Rydberg 
had done any original work in this genus. When we come to 
" tions to generic rank and given new names to them and renamed 
all the species. The limitations to the sections were done for the 
- most part before Rydberg was born. Rydberg tries to justify this 
j ognized by European botanists. Now if there is any crazy thing 
; ‘that some pee botanist has not. done in the near or remote 
"favor. Rydberg hea to do the same is in seals 
but he went a little farther and tried to split up some of Gray’s 
