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linear, about i mm. long, rather longer than the filaments: style 

 slender-columnar; stigmas curled backward: capsule subglobose, 

 about 2 mm. in diameter, topped by the persistent calyx, opening 

 by usually 3 large basal pores: seeds numerous, about .025 mm. 

 in diameter. — Grassy slopes, Chinsegut Hill, near Brooksville, 

 Florida. — Spring. 



Curiously enough the plant just described is most closely re- 

 lated to the Texan bellflower {Campanula Reverchonii). It differs 

 conspicuously, however, in the glabrous leaves, the short hy- 

 panthium, the smaller calyx, the smaller corolla with a shorter 

 tube, and the subglobose capsule. The plants grow most abun- 

 dantly about half way up the hill from Lake Lindsay and near the 

 summit. The species is named for Mrs. Raymond Robins 

 who was present when the specimens were discovered. Mrs. 

 Robins is making an extensive botanical garden on Chinsegut 

 Hill where plants have a great variety of natural habitats to 

 suit their various demands as to protection, exposure, moisture, 

 light, shade, and soil. The type specimen is in the herbarium 

 of The New York Botanical Garden, New York. 



BOOK REVIEWS 



Mosses with a Hand-lens. 



The 3rd edition of Dr. Grout's "Mosses with a Hand-lens"* 

 is practically a new book. The treatment of the Hepaticae has 

 been prepared by Dr. Marshall A. Howe. In the preliminary 

 introductory discussions we are told that the relation of mosses to 

 soil making and ecology, and the treatment of their life history is 

 much fuller "to serve the purpose of a textbook in schools and 

 colleges. 



A wealth of many illustrations, mostly halftone pictures, both 

 of moss habitats and of the plants themselves, give the volume 

 a most attractive appearance and should make many new moss 

 lovers and students. Many of these pictures very successfully 

 present the miniature parts of these moss subjects. Mnium 

 punctatum datum becomes a thing of flower-like beauty suggestive 

 of florets of Verbena. The habitat pictures, as of Thuidium and 



* A. J. Grout, Mosses with a Hand-lens. 3rd Edition. A popular guide to the 

 common or conspicuous mosses and liverworts of the northeastern United States. 

 A. J. Grout, New Brighton, Staten Island, New York. 



