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Hawaiian Mosses 2 



A decade ago the reviewer criticised local scientific institu- 

 tions for their plan of desiring to publish simply a check list of 

 Hawaiian plants instead of producing a complete, fully illus- 

 trated flora of the Hawaiian Islands. Receiving no encourage- 

 ment for undertaking such a more pretentious work which 

 should prove of value to the layman as well as to the scientist, 

 he set out alone to write a fully illustrated flora of the Hawaiian 

 Islands as far as the Vascular Plants are concerned. Now he is 

 agreeably surprised to find that the B. P. Bishop Museum of 

 Honolulu has just published a moss flora by Edwin B. Bartram 

 which exceeds in excellence his fondest hope. It is not only 

 illustrated, but it is written so that everyone can understand it, 

 whether technically trained or not. 



Bartram's "Manual of Hawaiian Mosses" will always re- 

 main a classic in its field. It is a scholarly work of 275 pages, 

 carefully describing and illustrating every moss ever recorded 

 from the Hawaiian Islands. Due to the author's studies and his 

 personal collecting in 1930 in the Islands, 195 species and 19 

 varieties are now known to comprise the Hawaiian moss flora. 

 Of this number 120 species and 16 varieties prove to be en- 

 demic, while 75 species and 1 variety are of more extended 

 range. Seventeen species and 4 varieties are described as new, 

 and 29 nomenclatorial changes have been made. The work also 

 describes the life history and structural features of mosses in 

 general; gives a key to the genera and species represented, a 

 glossary and a complete index. 



The "Manual of Hawaiian Mosses" is of interest not only 

 to local botanists and plant lovers. It is recommended to every 

 serious student of the group in the world if for no other reason 

 than that it deals with many cosmopolitan species. 



Otto Degener, Honolulu, T. H. 



Manual of Plant Diseases 3 

 The second edition of Heald's Manual of Plant Diseases has 

 been enlarged to 935 pages; it shows considerable new material 



2 Manual of Hawaiian Mosses, Edwin B. Bartram. B. P. Bishop Museum, 

 Honolulu. T.H.275 pages. 1933. 



3 Manual of Plant Diseases, Frederick DeForest Heald, McGraw-Hill 

 Book Co., 1933. 



