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and revenue-producing region, carrying a considerable population 
solely by the establishment of forests. Working plans, mensu- 
ration, general forest administration and the work of the American 
Forest Engineers in France are given due attention in other parts 
‘of the book, whilst there are twelve appendices dealing with special 
subjects, such as the forest and springs; forests from a physical, 
economic, and social view-point; silvics of important forest 
species; statistics of public and private forests; French forest 
literature (with over 900 references); German comments on 
French forestry with a comparison with German methods; 
forests of Alsace-Lorraine, etc. In order to establish the American 
Army as a fighting unit in France and to carry its operations to 
the end of the war we are told that it required 450,000,000 board 
feet of round or manufactured timber and 650,000 cords of fuel 
wood. This was at the rate of 14 tons for every soldier sent and 
75 per cent. of it was cut from the forests of France. The work 
numbers 550 pages, including a number of illustrations and a 
good index. Although it deals solely with matters in France, 
it is a book for general study, and should find a place in the 
library of every forester and in every class room where oe 
is taught. D. 
Eleocharis Jamesonii—This Cyperaceous plant was collected 
by Jameson, No. 369, on the Savannah of Guayaquil, Ecuador, 
and referred by Steudel to the genus Chaetocyperus under the 
name Chaetocyperus Jamesoni, Steud., Syn. Pl. Cyper., p. 74 
Whilst endeavouring to identify a West Indian species of 
Eleocharis I found that Jameson’s plant had never been recog- 
nised as being a member of this genus to which it properly 
belongs and it is therefore placed there under the original 
_ specific name as follows :-— 
Eleocharis Pa cesinanyee N. E. Brown iCiypefucean’sdebeusl, 
comb. nov. yperus Jamesoni, Steud., Syn. Pl. Cyper., 
p. 74. N. E. B. 
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