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| 320 The Botanical Gazette. [ 
The book will be for amateurs a useful supplement to Gray's May 
ual, but it is doubtful if they will reach certainty with this book @ 
readily as with that. The difference in the number of technicaltemmy 
which it is necessary to know. in order to use the two books is not 
great as appears at first sight. 
A reader in botany.* i 
The second part of Miss Newell’s Reader in Botany is as adminble 
in its selections and in the topics chosen as has been her other bola 
ical work. The articles are taken from such authors as Darwia, 
Sprengel, Kerner von Marilaun, Wallace, Gray, Grant Allen, Lab 
bock, Halsted, and Mrs. Buckley. Several of the chapters are origiil 
with the author, and one on the common dandelion has been white 
for the reader by Mr. F. Le Roy Sargent. The topics chosen arewel 
calculated to stimulate interest in the minds of young students aad 
they are all directed toward the interesting and attractive phases of : 
plant life. Here are some of the subjects:—cross fertilization; 
tection of pollen; attractive and protective colors of pines 
how seeds travel; habits of insects in relation to flowers; epochs in 
history of botany. 
If rae Gaoles waite more often seen in high schools yep 
were taught thus to observe the habits of plants, we should a 
complaint from students that they never did like pa rig: : 
should have less popular misconception of what botany really 
Minor Notices. 
Dr. B. L. Ropinson has published his present veitabe — 
caryophyllaceous groups?, views that are of azine, ‘orn TH 
have to do with the forthcoming part of the phere” kept apa 
closely allied genera Silene, Lychnis, and Agrostemma bee 
on the old lines. Silene is credited with fifty species, ea Lychais 
i i i e aut 
Lychnis also contains a new species. Otherwise, th 
a very conservative presentation of a group | in ‘ 
vexed questions as to generic delimitations. /n nection 
. ‘- N, Williams 
tion may be called to the suggestion of Mr. Frederic N 7 
and fruit. SOM 
1NeweELL, Jane H.:—A reader in botany. Part 2, ese figs. 36 
and adapted from well known authors. 12mo, PP- pe 
Ginn & Co. 1893. os Silenee and PONE ae 
*Rosinson, B. L.:—The North American >! of Bt 
Amer. Acad, xxvii. 124-155. [June 22, 1893. ] of Lychnis. Journal 
3Wituias, Freperic N.:—The disintegration ie 
any, xxx1. (1893). 167. 
