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Under Alliwn more information would have been welcome 

 under A. canadense L. Judging from our collection it is scarcely 

 so common as to merit the remark, " Frequent." In the same 

 family the inclusion of the genus Hosta is surprising, as both of 

 the two species listed are usually only very doubtfully established 

 escapes. Throughout the work there are many plants of this 

 character included within the regular list. From the standpoint 

 of the completeness of the record this is necessary, but it would 

 have added to the general consistency of the work to have printed 

 them in some distinguishing type, so that they might at a glance 

 have been separated from the legitimate elements in the wild flora 

 of the state. 



The omission of Qiiercus borealis Michx. f from the list is sur- 

 prising, in view of the fact that all our best specimens of this 

 plant come from Connecticut. It would be easy to multiply in- 

 stances of this sort, but they are, for the most part, referable to 

 differences of botanical parentage, and not therefore subjects which 

 come within the scope of a short review. As the name of the 

 work indicates it is a catalog and the lack of descriptions is not 

 a very serious omission, but the introduction of keys would have 

 almost trebled the value of the work to the general run of its 

 users. Under most of the species there are notes on the economic 

 or cultural uses of the plant. While these are interesting they 

 have the tang of the book and candle rather than that of the bo- 

 tanically unsophisticated. And the space they take up would 

 have been very acceptably filled with keys. 



As a point of departure for future work on Connecticut this 

 list will be a landmark and a bulwark. The care and devoted 

 labors of the authors have been the means of making an invaluable 

 record of the plants and their distribution. As such it is most 

 welcome and the Connecticut Botanical Club is to be congratu- 

 lated upon the completion of a book that will serve as a basis for 

 all future v/ork. 



The appendix requires brief notice. It contains, besides a copi- 

 ous index, a list of corrections and additions, " Native plants not 

 found in recent years ", " Excluded species ", " Fugitive species ", 

 " Statistical Summaries", and a list of botanical authors cited in 



