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  BOTANICAL 
  GAZETTE. 
  

  

  ^53 
  

  

  t 
  

  

  winter 
  and 
  have 
  found 
  it 
  accurate 
  and 
  sufficiently 
  full 
  in 
  its 
  statements 
  

   to 
  enable 
  the 
  student 
  to 
  perform 
  the 
  operations 
  described. 
  

  

  The 
  translation 
  is 
  well 
  done 
  and 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  important 
  criti- 
  

   cisms 
  of 
  methods 
  and 
  practical 
  hints 
  have 
  been 
  added 
  by 
  the 
  translator. 
  

  

  The 
  defects 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  are 
  those 
  of 
  all 
  similar 
  hand-books 
  on 
  the 
  

   subject. 
  The 
  chief 
  fault 
  is 
  the 
  lack 
  of 
  sharp 
  criticism 
  of 
  the 
  methods 
  

   and 
  apparatus 
  described, 
  so 
  that 
  the 
  student 
  at 
  a 
  distance 
  from 
  larger 
  in- 
  

   stitutions 
  can 
  readily 
  tell 
  what 
  he 
  wants 
  for 
  a 
  given 
  case. 
  This 
  is 
  espec- 
  

   ially 
  noticeable 
  in 
  the 
  chapters 
  on 
  anaerobic 
  cultures 
  and 
  moist 
  

   chambers. 
  

  

  The 
  improvised 
  apparatus 
  described 
  is 
  usually 
  good 
  and 
  serviceable. 
  

   One 
  must 
  doubt, 
  however, 
  whether 
  a 
  really 
  practical 
  hot-air 
  sterilizer 
  

   will 
  be 
  made 
  from 
  a 
  cracker 
  box, 
  as 
  even 
  slight 
  carelessness, 
  almost 
  un- 
  

   avoidable 
  in 
  beginners' 
  work, 
  would 
  melt 
  the 
  solder 
  out 
  of 
  much 
  of 
  the 
  

   box. 
  ^ 
  A 
  sheet-iron 
  box 
  can 
  be 
  constructed 
  cheaply 
  enough 
  to 
  meet 
  all 
  

   practical 
  considerations 
  of 
  economy. 
  

  

  The 
  publishers 
  have 
  not 
  done 
  their 
  duty 
  by 
  this 
  manual. 
  It 
  is 
  pub- 
  

   lished 
  as 
  part 
  of 
  a 
  series 
  and 
  is 
  bound 
  up 
  with 
  papers 
  on 
  the 
  knee-joint 
  

  

  the 
  eye. 
  It 
  has 
  no 
  index, 
  table 
  of 
  contents, 
  or 
  running 
  headings, 
  

   and 
  the 
  book 
  must 
  be 
  largely 
  committed 
  to 
  memory 
  before 
  easy 
  use 
  

   can 
  be 
  made 
  of 
  it. 
  This 
  is 
  asking 
  too 
  much. 
  If 
  a 
  good 
  index 
  could 
  be 
  

   provided, 
  and 
  the 
  book 
  bound 
  in 
  cloth 
  separately, 
  it 
  would 
  find 
  a 
  place 
  

   as 
  a 
  handy 
  and 
  practically 
  useful 
  laboratory 
  manual. 
  E. 
  A. 
  Birge. 
  

  

  The 
  plants 
  of 
  New 
  Jersey. 
  

  

  New 
  Jersey 
  has 
  always 
  been 
  considered 
  our 
  most 
  interesting 
  eastern 
  

   otanical 
  field, 
  a 
  sort 
  of 
  Mecca 
  for 
  collectors, 
  an 
  unrivaled 
  region 
  for 
  rare 
  

   plants. 
  The 
  consequence 
  is 
  that 
  it 
  has 
  cultivated 
  an 
  active 
  race 
  of 
  botan- 
  

   ^ts; 
  and 
  lying 
  so 
  near 
  such 
  centers 
  of 
  .botanical 
  activity 
  as 
  New 
  York 
  

   "y 
  and 
  Philadelphia, 
  it 
  must 
  have 
  been 
  more 
  carefully 
  explored 
  than 
  

   ny 
  other 
  state. 
  As 
  a 
  result, 
  we 
  have 
  before 
  us 
  the 
  very 
  handsome 
  and 
  

   complete 
  catalogue 
  of 
  plants'" 
  prepared 
  by 
  Dr. 
  N. 
  L. 
  Britton, 
  with 
  the 
  as- 
  

   sistance 
  of 
  numerous 
  botanists. 
  The 
  catalogue 
  includes 
  all 
  groups 
  of 
  

   a 
  h^^v 
  ^"^^ 
  o'^'^S 
  stations 
  and 
  collectors 
  with 
  considerable 
  detail, 
  it 
  forma 
  

   bulky 
  volume 
  of 
  more 
  than 
  640 
  pages. 
  The 
  tabulation 
  made 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  

   the 
  volume 
  is 
  interesting, 
  and 
  is 
  as 
  follows: 
  Phanerogams 
  1919 
  (134S 
  

   7674-^^*^°°^' 
  ^^^ 
  monocotyledons, 
  and 
  13 
  gymnosperms) 
  : 
  Pteridophytes 
  

   Th 
  1/ 
  °^ 
  ^^^^^^ 
  ^^® 
  Filicinese): 
  Bryophytes 
  461 
  (312 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  Musci): 
  

   l^^^'^P^ytes 
  3021 
  (329 
  lichens, 
  987 
  alg^, 
  and 
  1705 
  fungi) 
  : 
  Protophytes 
  

   (111 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  Cyanophyce*). 
  The 
  total 
  number 
  of 
  species 
  and 
  

   to?h^^^^ 
  ^^"nierated 
  is 
  5641. 
  The 
  catalogue 
  is 
  a 
  credit 
  to 
  the 
  state 
  and 
  

   but 
  1 
  ^°^^^^^*^ 
  ^^° 
  ^^^^'6 
  collected 
  there 
  ; 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  to 
  he 
  hoped 
  that 
  other 
  

   less 
  favorably 
  situated 
  states 
  will 
  at 
  some 
  time 
  be 
  able 
  to 
  make 
  as 
  

   --^^Pii^^^^Presentation 
  of 
  their 
  plants. 
  

  

  the 
  Stat^^^^^"°'''-~'^atalogiie 
  of 
  plants 
  found 
  in 
  New 
  Jersey. 
  [From 
  the 
  final 
  report 
  of 
  

   «ie 
  Geologist, 
  Vol. 
  II.] 
  pp.642. 
  Trenton: 
  1889. 
  

  

  