64 Forest Club Annual 



Botanical Garden, is now in slow course of publication, a "part" 

 appearing every few months . It is to include descriptions of all 

 the plants of North America, but at the present rate of publi- 

 cation it will be nearly a hundred years before it is completed. 

 Yet the forester will have to know about this work, and be able 

 to consult it when necessary. 



The Index Kewensis, (1893-1908) by B. D. Jackson, is a 

 work of four large quarto volumes, with two supplementary vol- 

 umes, filled with alphabetically arranged lists of the species and 

 and genera of the higher plants, with their synonyms. While 

 not in any sense a descriptive manual it is most useful in enab- 

 ling one to determine questions of synonymy. 



REPORTS AND MONOGRAPHS. 



There are many state and governmental reports that con- 

 tain much of value to the young systematic botanist, but I shall 

 keep my list down to as small a number as possible, yet it must 

 be remembered that for some portions of the West and South- 

 west these reports contain the most accurate information that 

 we yet possess. 



Watson's Report on Botany (1871), in King's Report of 

 the Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel, contains an 

 enumeration of the plants of Colorado, Utah and Nevada, with 

 descriptions of the new, and the less commonly known species. 



Rothrock's Report on Botany (1878), in Wheeler's Report 

 upon the United States Geological Surveys West of the 100th 

 Meridian, contains an enumeration of the plants of Colorado 

 (southern), New Mexico and Arizona, with descriptions of the 

 new, and the less commonly known species. 



These two reports are of the highest value, because for 

 much of the intermountain region they contain the most com- 

 plete enumerations yet made. 



Brewer, Watson and Gray's Botany of California (1876- 

 1880), in the State Geological Survey of that state, contains a 

 most complete and satisfactory treatment of the flowering plants 

 and ferns of California and the contiguous territory. Unfor- 

 tunately the volumes are no longer to be found, excepting in 

 the larger libraries. 



Rydberg's Catalogue of the Flora of Montana and the Yel- 

 lowstone National Park, 1900, is a pretty complete enumeration 

 of the ferns and flowering plants of the Yellowstone Park, and 



