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 Deam's Grasses of Indiana- 



The people of the State of Indiana are to be congratulated 

 on having a citizen competent to write a book of this nature and 

 a Department of Conservation to provide means for its pub- 

 lication and distribution. Convincing in its scientific treatment, 

 lucid in its presentation, and complete in its information, the 

 "Grasses of Indiana" certainly approaches the ideal. 



The plan of the book is comprehensive. Besides a care- 

 ful and extended description of the grass family in general, it pro- 

 vides keys to the tribes, genera, and species, a full bibliography, a 

 glossary, a list of reported but excluded species with the reasons 

 therefor, a list of new state and country records, and a list of 

 new species and names. The single new species in Panicuni 

 Deamii, described by Hitchcock and Chase. Under each genus 

 a technical description appears with other general information 

 about its range and number of species included. For each 

 species the usual description is supplemented by full notes on its 

 habitat, its importance in agriculture, if any, and its general geo- 

 graphic description, by a map showing its known range through 

 the state, and by a carefully drawn figure showing the details of 

 its structure. Thefigures arewith one exception by Professor Paul 

 Weatherwax of Indiana University. A general map shows the 

 floristic regions of the state. 



The grasses of Indiana comprise 201 species, 19 varieties, 

 and 7 minor forms, and constitute about a tenth of the total 

 flora of the state. In his preparation of the book the author ex- 

 amined over seven thousand specimens and it is noteworthy 

 that just half of them were in his personal herbarium. The maps 

 show the herbaria in which specimens from each county may 

 be found. 



H. A. Gleason 



2 Deam, Charles C. Grasses of Indiana, pp. 356, with 23 figures, 87 plates, 

 218 maps. Published by the Department of Conservation, State of Indiana, 

 1929. Price not stated. 



FIELD TRIPS OF THE CLUB 



Field Trip of September 8, 1929 



Muggy, hot weather, threatening rain, did not prevent ten 



enthusiastic botanists from participating in the trip to Fresh 



Kills and vicinity, Staten Island. Most of those present promis- 



