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lication to be new, but if they have not been previously published 
in some other journal, they must be relegated to the already 
regrettably extensive list of nomina nuda. This unfortunate 
condition would not have obtained had Dinsmore appended a 
few terms of characterization by which the new forms could be 
distinguished from the species to which they are related. 
The general summary is, then, that Dinsmore's Die Pflanzen 
Palastinas is a seriatim list of the plants of Palestine quoted 
from Post's Flora of Syria, Palestine and Egypt limited to those 
known to Mr. Dinsmore to occur in Palestine; accompanied by 
the already published arabic equivalents on the authority of 
Boissier, Bauer, Hadded, etc., with the addition of other arabic 
equivalents on the authority of Dalman; prepared without refer- 
ence to the entire reclassification of plants which has been so 
actively carried out during the last twenty-five years, a reclassi- 
fication almost universally adopted in botanic centers and in 
educational institutions. 
E. L. Morris 
CURRENT LITERATURE 
In 1904 K. M. Wiegand and F. W. Foxworthy issued a key 
to the genera of woody plants in winter. This valuable little 
pamphlet of 33 pages has run through several editions and was 
perhaps the best known treatment of the subject until the present 
time. From the Storrs Experiment Station we have just re- 
ceived a much more elaborate work* covering a similar field. 
After a preface acknowledging the chief sources of information 
and a short bibliography, the authors take up in the introduction, 
first, the question of "Names." Throughout they have given 
the commoner vernacular names of each species as well as the 
". ,. one scientific name at present sanctioned by botanical 
authorities." Naturally these are the names maintained in the 
new Gray Manual, and the authors are to be congratulated upon 
* Blakeslee, A. F., and Jarvis, C. D. New England Trees in Winter. Bull. 
Storrs Agr. Exp. Sta. 69: 307-576. [Je] 1911. Storrs, Conn. [Received in 
December, 1911.] 
