BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 35 
subdivided into two sections based upon the pubescense or not of the leaves. In 
the pubescent or floccose section we have seed characters used for subdivisions, 
dicans, V. iforn on and V. Ari 
candica: Caribea, V. Californica, V. monticola, nica, havin 
the raphe on the seed ri Ey and V. eesti and merea having the raphe 
very fmeienow The nrouerlenee section is also subdivided a the same 
seed character, V. cordifolia having the raphe pe cuous, and V, palmata, 
riparia and V. rupestris having the se indistine 
The Elemenis of Botany: Embracing Organography, Histology, Vegetable Physi- 
ology, Systematic Botany and Economic Botany, Arranged for school use 
or independent study. Together with a complete glossary of botanical terms. 
By W. A. Kellerman, Ph. D., Professor of Botany and Zoology in the Kan- 
sas State iene Sotaen: etc. 12mo. pp. x, 348. Philadelphia: John 
E. apie & Co. 
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endeavor to prepare a book whose brevi pk elt suit it for use as a high schingt 
text-book on botany, the author ua made a too common mistake by trying to 
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mass of facts and definitions at the prenene ge of the student. After serving the 
immediate purpose of enabling him to pass the required examination, t the book 
and its contents pass out of sight and out of min ether or not such 
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another is, in our opinion, extremely bad. Organogr graphy er Rakes itt pa 
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common plant, such as a Grass, Rose-bus illow or a is examin 
why not trichomes? What would a pupil infer should y chance, actually 
€Xamine a grass like Panicum capillare or any rose as to the fue a of the h airs 
and prickles? A little further down, we find “ soar or Tric 
mostly hair like. 
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