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two portions, by two half fissures at an angle to each other, one 

 part of the shell representing about one-third of the whole, and 

 the other the remaining two-thirds, as though the tricarpellary 

 development had not been completed. 



F. Alex. McDermott. 



Pittsburgh, Pa. 



REVIEWS 



Coker's Plant Life of Hartsville, South Carolina* 



Although South Carolina was the home of some of the most 

 noted southern botanists of the ante-bellum period, and the 

 scene of much good work by transient collectors as well as by 

 residents in the early days of American botany, when plants 

 were always studied singly, without reference to their associa- 

 tions and environment, it has been sadly neglected by students 

 of the modern science of plant sociology ; and fewer descriptions 

 of vegetation have been published for that state than for almost 

 any other in the South. The only paper on South Carolina 

 vegetation at all comparable with the one before us is one by the 

 same author on the Isle of Palms (Charleston County), published 

 about seven years earlier. f 



The present paper is a rather detailed study of the vegetation 

 of the immediate vicinity of the town where the author was born 

 and where he has spent many of his vacations since becoming a 

 professor of botany in another state. The area covered does 

 not seem to have any definite boundaries, natural or otherwise. 

 The following condensed outline of the work (which has no table 

 of contents) will indicate its scope about as well as several 

 sentences would. 



Introduction (history of exploration) 3-4 



Climate 4-7 



Topography and geology 7-8 



* The plant Ufe of Hartsville, S. C. By W. C. Coker, Ph.D., Professor of 

 Botany, University of North Carolina. 129 pp., 15 plates. 6| X lof in. Printed 

 at Columbia, S. C, for the Pee Dee Historical Association, [December] 1912. — 

 Pages 3-38, with the plates, originally published in Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 

 27: 169-205, pi. 1-15. 1912. (Misprinted "Vol. XXVIII, December, 1911.") 



fToRREYA 5: 135-145./- 1-4- Aug. 1905. 



