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care and acumen have enriched the already valuable work of the author, so 
that English readers are indebted to him for far more than a translation of pecul- 
iarly difficult German. To recommend the English form to all libraries and 
laboratories as a standard work of reference is, at this date, really quite super- 
fluous.—C. R. B 
British flowering plants.—Under this title Lord Avepury,® better known as 
Sir Jonn Lussock, has brought together a mass of desultory notes on various 
things connected with a great many plants. The author says that this work 
is “to describe points of interest in the life-history of our British plants; to 
explain, as far as possible, the reasons for the structure, form, and color; ane 
to suggest some of the innumerable problems which still remain for solution.’ 
A glossary and an introductory chapter indicate that the book may be used by 
those with no botanical training; and perhaps it will be chiefly so used. Each 
species is taken as the occasion for the presentation of all sorts of facts and fancies 
and questions in reference to it, as though the author had emptied his note book 
under that head. There is no distinct organization and no pam ae index; 
so that the botanist will simply have to ‘‘run on” to things.—J. 
Spring flora of Ohio.—Under the title ‘Spring Flora,” the botanical staff 
of Ohio State University has issued a manual for beginners and amateurs.° It 
is a revised edition of KELLERMAN’S “Spring Flora of Ohio,” and its range 
as been extended so as to include Ohio and Indiana and the adjacent states. 
The time range extends from the opening of the season into the first part of 
June; and such difficult groups as grasses and sedges are not included. There 
is also a key to the trees and shrubs based on leaf and twig characters.—J. M. C. 
Flora of Norway.—AxeEL Buiyrtt’s completed Handbook of the Norwegian 
Flora, including the vascular plants, has been issued under the peak of 
AHL.'° In reality it has been in preparation since 1861, having 
begun by the father, continued by the son, whose name is on the title page, <P 
now finally edited by a third botanist. It is a model of compact and clear print- 
ing, excellent arrangement, and good text figures. The sequence is that of Engler 
and Prantl.—J. M. C 
8 AveBURY, THE Ricut Hon. Lorp, Notes on the life history of British flowering 
Plants. 8vo. pp. xxiiit+4so. figs. 352. New York: The Macmillan Company. 
1905. $5.00. 
9 Ketrerman, W. A., GLEASON, H. A., and ScHAFFNER, J. H., Spring flora 
for beginners and amateurs. pp. xiii+188. Columbus, Ohio: Geo. W. Tooill. 1906. 
75 cents. 
*° Biytr, Axet, Haandbog i ee Flora. Efter forfatterens dod afsluttet og 
udgivet ved ones AHL. pp. xi+78o. figs. 661. Kristiania: Alb. Cammermeyers 
Forlag. 1906. 
