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Species Specimens wanted from 



Grossulariaceae 



Ribes lacustre (Pers.) Poir. Northern N. Y, 



Ribes glandulosumGrsiuer. {R. Pa. & N. Y. 



prostratum L'Her.)* 

 Ribes americanum Mill. {R. Northern N. Y. and N. J. 



floridum L'Her.) 

 Ribes triste Fall. {R.rubrum'L.) N. J. and N. Y. 

 Grossularia hirtella (Michx.) N. J. and Pa. 



Spach. (R. huronense Rydb.) 

 Grossularia {Ribes) Cynosbati Northern N. J., N. Y., and Pa. 



(L.) Mill. 



Platanaceae 



Platanus occidentalis L. Ulster, Greene, and Delaware 



counties, N. Y. 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



REVIEWS 



The Plant Life of Maryland! 



There are very few states in the Union whose vegetation has 

 been described with any pretense of thoroughness, and in Mary- 

 land not even a catalogue of the vascular plants of the whole 

 state had been published before; probably chiefly because the 

 state contains very few rare and perhaps no endemic species, 

 and therefore offers little attraction to the average systematic 

 botanist. Maryland is the northernmost state, south of the 

 glaciated region, which extends all the way from the coast to 

 the mountains (and incidentally probably the only one which 

 contains both Taxus minor and Taxodium, or Pinus Taeda and 



*The names used are those maintained in North American Flora 22: 193-209. 

 1908. The ones in brackets are those in Britton's manual. 



fThe Plant Life of Maryland. By Forrest Shreve, M. A. Chrysler, Frederick 

 H. Blodgett and F. W. Besley. Special publication Maryland Weather Service, 

 new series. Vol. 3, 533 pp., 39 plates (including i map), 15 text-figures (including 

 12 maps). Baltimore, 1910. 



Abstracts or reviews of it have already appeared in Science II. 32 : 837-868. 

 Dec. 16, 1910 ; Forestry Quarterly 8: 484-486. 1911 ; and Scottish Geograph- 

 ical Magazine 27 : 1-6. /. 1-4. Jan., 191 1. 



