32 WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION 



Schuyler Mathews's Field Book of American 

 Wild Flowers, $2.00, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 

 New York, in limp leather binding, $2.50. 

 This book, of convenient pocket size, contains 

 twenty-four colored plates and many excellent 

 line drawings illustrating, in all, 696 species 

 more or less completely. There are brief and 

 simple descriptions and incidental notes on 

 methods of fertilization. The plants are ar- 

 ranged systematically (that is, according to 

 the families to which they belong) . There is 

 a key, based on the characters of the leaves and 

 the number of parts of the flowers, and also a 

 color-index to aid in identification. 



Mrs. William Starr Dana's How to Know 

 the Wild Flowers, $2.00, Charles Scribner's 

 Sons, New York, with 158 plates, 48 colored, 

 the rest line drawings. The plants are ar- 

 ranged, first under the color of their flowers 

 and then according to the months in which 

 they blossom, a popular method which makes 

 identification very simple for beginners. In 

 all, about five hundred species are described. 



Alice Lounsberry's A Guide to the Wild 

 Flowers, $1.90, Frederick A. Stokes Co., New 



