Volume 40 January-February, 1940 Number 1 



TORREYA 



A Bi-MoNTHLY Journal of Botanical Notes and News 



EDITED FOR 



THE TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 



BY 



GEORGE T. HASTINGS 



John Torrey, 1796-1873 



CONTENTS 



The Microfossils in a Pre-Kansan Peat Deposit near Belle Plaine, Iowa 



L. R. Wilson and R. M. Kosanke 1 



New Plant Records for West Virginia Earl L. Core 5 



Guide to the Lichens of the New York Area — Part 5 G. G. Nearing 9 



Book Reviews 



Green's Trees of the South Arthur Harmount Graves 19 



Sturtevant and Beadle's An Introduction to Genetics . . R. C. Benedict 20 



Waddington's An Introduction to Modern Genetics.. R. C. Benedict 21 



Barkley's Keys to the Phyla of Organisms George T. Hastings 23 



Field Trips of the Club 24 



Proceedings of the Club 27 



News Notes 28 



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 Published for the Club 



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Entered as second class matter at the post office at Burlington, Vermont, 

 October 14, 1939, under the Act of March 3, 1879 



