New York Botanical Garden Publication 



"Flora of Bermuda" by Nathaniel Lord Britton and others, 

 which was published by Scribner's in 1918, will henceforth be 

 procurable from The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, 

 New York City, at the reduced price of $3.50. The book con- 

 tains special sections on Mosses by Elizabeth G. Britton, He- 

 patics by Alexander W. Evans, Lichens by Lincoln W. Riddle, 

 Fungi by William A. Murrill and Fred J. Seaver, and Algae by 

 Marshall A. Howe. 



Dr. Britton, who was the founder and for 35 years director 

 of The New York Botanical Garden, bequeathed the rights of 

 this volume to the institution. 



The Botanical Garden has also this month reduced the price 

 of "A Text-book of General Lichenology" by Albert Schneider, 

 published in 1897, to $2.50, and has added Britton's "Manual 

 of the Flora of the Northern States and Canada" (second edi- 

 tion, 1907) to its list of books on sale, offering it at the accus- 

 tomed price of $2.50. 



Other books published and handled by The New York Bo- 

 tanical Garden include P. A. Rydberg's "Flora of the Prairies 

 and Plains of Central North America ($5.50) and H. A. Glea- 

 son's "Plants in the Vicinity of New York" — a simple key to 

 the names of about 1,500 species of plants occurring in the New 

 York area. This will appear in May and will sell for ($1.50). 



BOOK REVIEW 

 A popular fern book 1 



A book to appeal to all lovers of plants, attractively bound, 

 printed and illustrated. 



All of the ferns and fern allies that have been found in the 

 state (North Carolina) are described and illustrated with accu- 

 rate line drawings of a frond as well as of small portions enlarged 

 to show the sori. There is a simple key to families, under the 

 families there are keys to the genera and for each genus there is 

 a key to the species. Scientific terms are not avoided and there 



1 Ferns of North Carolina, H. L. Blomquist. XII plus 131 pp. Duke Uni- 

 versity Press, 1934. $2.00. 



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