THE BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
Edited by JoHN M. CouLTER, Head Professor of Botany in the 
University of Chicago. Published monthly, with illustra- 
tions. Subscription price, $4.00 a year in the United 
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The Botanical Gazette is an illustrated monthly journal devoted to botany 
in its widest sense. For more than twenty years it has been the representative 
‘American journal of botany, containing contributions from the leading botanists 
of America and Europe. In addition to the formal papers presenting the results 
of research, current information and discussion are given in the editorials, and 
in the departments of Current Literature, Open Letters, Notes for Students, and 
Notes and News. 
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SILENE 2490 
Caryophyllaceae 
62 
You can obtain genus labels like the above for $1.00 a thousand. 
The numbers, taken from the Genera Stphonogamarum of Torre & 
Harms, show the systematic arrangement of the genera in Engler & 
Prantl’s aturlichen Plans senfamilien. The number 62 represents 
the position of the genus in the family Caryophyllaceae, and 2490 the 
total number of the genus in the sequence. The genera represented 
in this Catalogue will be printed in d/ack ink, foreign genera in red 
ink. Either series may be had separately. Several labels will be 
furnished for large genera. Send vour order to 
A. A. HELLER, 
547 West Walnut street, Lancaster, Pa. 
