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merited by several text-figures and carefully reproduced full -page il 1 astrations. 

 The work will serve as an excellent basis for future taxonomic investigation on 

 the interesting flora of this island. — J. M. Greenman. 



The United States as seen by de Vries. — Professor de Vries has published in 

 the most attractive form an account of his experiences on his second American trip. 9 

 The volume is written in popular style, and is amply illustrated with unusually 

 good half-tones depicting American scenery and universities. There are chapters 

 on North Carolina with its cypress swamps and insectivorous plants; Arizona 

 and the Grand Canyon; southern California with descriptions of San Diego, 

 the marine vegetation of Santa Catalina, Pomona College, and a camping trip 

 in the San Bernardino Mountains; the San Francisco earthquake, with special 

 illustrations and descriptions of the disaster at Santa Rosa and Stanford Uni- 

 versity; the University of California, together with accounts of excursions to 

 Mill Valley, Monterey, Mt. Hamilton, etc.; Great Salt Lake and Salt Lake City; 

 agriculture in the central states, giving descriptions of the Kansas prairies, experi- 

 ment stations and agricultural colleges in Kansas and Iowa, and maize culture 

 in Illinois; and the dunes of Lake Michigan. One notices slight mistakes in 



e legends of two illustrations, a cut of Drosera being called Dionaea, and a 

 scene among the University of Chicago buildings being attributed to the Uni- 

 ^ity of California. One in perusing this book longs for facility in the Dutch 

 ^guage, for the book contains the American impressions of one of the ablest 



°° our da y- Botanists in these days too rarely write such volumes as this, 

 P« aps because they feel that most of us are now globe-trotters, and able to 



0Ur 0wn interpreters.-*. C. Cowles. 



Conn^* 6 and bryophytes of Connecticut.— The algae of the fresh waters of 

 prelim?' ^ haVC beCn described b y Professor Conn and Mrs. Webster in a 

 drawTrTTf rep ° rt ' 10 The descriptions and analytical keys and numerous 

 studemf natwe ) br ing these forms within easy reach of collectors and 



and Mf />'°P h y te s of Connecticut have been described by Professor Evans 

 °rvoDhvt IC f OIS ." An introduction (37 pp.) presents the general features of 



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total 



to envilon Study in the state ' their distribul 



^ station 06 " 1 ' and thCir economic value - The catalogue, which 

 niales 02 T ^^ the followin g enumeration: Marchantiales is 

 ^J^nthocerotales 3, Sphagnales 31, Andreaeales 2, Bryale 



1907. DE Y RIES ' H ugo, Naar California II. Haarlem : H. D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon 



,h <fresh wate - ' tr AN ° Webster > Lucia W., A preliminary 



N " at - Hi st Si FS Connecticu t- PP. 78- Pis. 44 (figs. 2qi). Hartford: State Geol. anc 



"Ev." y ' Bu11 - la J 9o8. 

 *"**d' StL r W "' AND NlCHOLS > G - E -» The bryophytes of Connecticut, pp. 203 



beo1 - and Nat. Hist. Survey, Bull. 11. 1908. 



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