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the style," which made it a little worse. I know the word 

 stamen and the word style, but I don't know what either of 

 them mean, 



Q. What do you mean by stamen, or styles? 



A. Well, there is two little round — I really don't know — 

 there is two little round — it is like a round cord that comes out 

 of the seed pod, and that come out of the flower, or the bud, 

 rather, refused to open. 



The Court: What is the calyx? 



The Witness: The calyx is the part that holds the leaves 

 together. 



The Court: And this stamen came out? 



The Witness: Yes. 



The Court: The stamen is the thing that blossoms and 

 makes the flower? 



The Witness: No, the stamen is into the seed pod, and 

 that came out, and of course, that was as far as it could go. 



REVIEWS 



Coulter's Plant Life and Plant Uses * 



Coulter's Plant Life and Plant Uses seems to the reviewer 

 unfortunate in implying in title and in the subtitle that it is in 

 any peculiar way "a foundation for agriculture, domestic science, 

 and college botany." If a proportionate discussion of such 

 subjects as weeds, yeasts and bacteria, and economic uses and 

 relationships of plants would "seriously impair the unity of 

 organization which should characterize a foundational text" the 

 misleading subtitle should be changed. 



The combination of conversational style and a large number of 

 technical terms seems unfortunate also. There have appeared 

 recently several high school text books which are as broad in 

 scope, and which present more satisfactorily the several styles or 

 treatments which the author has endeavored to combine in this 

 book. Atkinson's Botany for Schools, as a type of the strictly 

 academic, is far superior. The chapter-end questions are much 

 better done by Andrews in the Practical Course in Botany ; the 

 questions in that are really thought-producing, while Dr. Coulter 



* John Gaylord Coulter. Plant Life and Plant Uses. Pp. v-xvi + 1-464. 

 /. 1-230. American Book Company, New York, 1913. Price, I1.20. 



