1886. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 45 
The contents of the book might be outlined in tabular form, thus— 
: | Species 
Genera. ar Varieties. gpociee pee likely to be 
pecies. pecies, found. 
Polypetalve..................38 Orders} 184. 613 59 11 4 
Gamopetalee ............... eee 181 662 149 9 ?: 
Apetalze ot Bes 49 166 26 3 T 
Total Dicotyledons.....75Orders| 414 1441 234 28 5 
M tyled iss. 0 104 344 49 7 7 
Gymnosperms............. os 6 16 6 0 ? 
Vascular Cryptogams.. 7 “ 19 44 3 0 2 
es eg ae een ee eke 
Total 97 * 543 1845 292 30 14 
r 
ase to time and commercial ave- 
t houg ore ess V _— the west can certainly de- 
sire no portage of the number thus bro 
g the state of Michigan frou oem area embraced by Gray’s Manual, 
it will then be found that Coulter's Manual covers nearly an equal su urface. 
i flor g 
Our region is richer both in genera and in species of ifer 
cky Mountains. Touchin ng the south-western hot belt, it is Ag: surprising to 
find Professor Coulter’s region so val represented in Cactacee. Wehave mo 
ra and fewer speci uminosze tha an — western pete now conside 
w 
a sing] i tical bot o be tenes 
2 ns os ree to be had which ee Lal shee ak oes diva he hel full 
ools 
*nough and tho pot reliable. 
It is true that ‘as tate al Y there one detects an oversight. Thus we find Leu- 
