166 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ June, 
CURRENT LITERATURE. 
Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.) 
Insular floras are always peculiarly interesting, and few are more so 
than that of the Hawaiian Islands. Lying so far removed from all con- 
tinents, these islands present important problems to the geographical — 
botanist During a residence of twenty years Dr. Hillebrand unremit- 
tingly studied the Hawaiian flora, thoroughly exploring the whole region 
. _ and cultivating very many of its native plants. This book, embodying as 
it does the results of such protracted study, is more than a mere manual, 
for it contains most valuable notes upon the peculiarities of the flora and 
offers many suggestions as to its origin. It isa pity that the author was 
not spared to correct the proof-sheets and to develop his notes, which are 
__Slven as mere memoranda, but the editing has evidently been very con- 
__ Selentiously done by his son, assisted by Professor Askenasy, of Heidel- 
berg. _An introduction of twenty pages gives a general account of the 
position and nature of the Hawaiian Islands, as well as the striking 
oe features of its flora. Then follows Mr. Bentham’s “ Outlines of Botany,” 
_ from his British and Colonial Floras, with a good glossary. The diversity 
on of Conditions, and hence of the flora, of the different islands is so great 
“at in our limited Space we can give no account of it, although it is pre- 
d in the production of diverse forms. These 
: only ones of the Polynesian group which contain 
© Proportion of indigenous plants with American affinities, while 
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