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scribed and discussed at length. The illustrations are also the same, hav- 
ing been rearranged to accommodate them to the reduced size of the 
ork.* 
Grasses and Forage Plants. By Charles L. Flint. Revised edition, 12°, pp. 
398. Lee & Shepard: Boston, 1888. 
This, although called a “ revised” edition, is practically the same as 
that published twenty-four years ago, the only changes of any importance 
being confined to about half a dozen pages, where new illustrations of 
some more recent agricultural machines are substituted for old ones, 
with some cutting out and change of type to correspond. The only new 
matter relating to forage plants is on page 196, where a short account of 
Japan clover (Lespedeza striata) is introduced, and even this is not in- 
cluded in the systematic index. The preface is unchanged from the sixth 
edition of 1864, except in giving a new date—1888 instead of 1859—not 
even mentioning the few changes already noticed. It is, therefore, little 
more than a reprint of the old edition of twenty years ago. As that has 
eg a long time before the public, its many excellent qualities are well 
own. 
But, in a “revised edition,” after the lapse of so many years, some 
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the South Atlantic and Gulf States, where long summer droughts prevail, _ 
greatly to the injury of the grazing interests, and a number of new an 
promising grasses and forage plants are under trial. These points are 
entirely ignored in this “revised edition.” 
In another particular the public might naturally look for some change. 
This is in relation to the botanical terms and the classification employed 
m the description of grasses in the introductory chapter. A proper 
revision would have changed the botanical names of ten or twelve i ma 
and would have changed the application of some of the terms used in de- 
Scribing the parts of the flower. Thus, Calamagrostis (of our country) 
is now Deyeuxia, Brizopyrum is Distichlis, Lepturus (of our country) is 
known as Schedonnardus, our Triticums are Agropyrums, Dupontia 18 
called Graphephorum, Gymnostichum is Asprella, ete. The application 
of the terms glume and palet should have been modified so as to express 
the modern view of the structure of grass flowers—the term glume being 
now extended to include what was formerly called the lower palet, and 
