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The best feature of the catalogue is the way in which the dis- 
tribution of each and every native species is summed up with 
reference to the whole state, and correlated with habitats as far 
as possible. The author here shows a wholesome disregard for 
the fetters of tradition, and although full credit is given to pre- 
vious writers (see p. 26), many questionable statements about 
the occurrence of certain species in southern New Jersey (e. g., 
Lophotocarpus, Dichromena, Aletris aurea, Chondrophora) that 
have been handed down for generations and accepted without 
much question are rejected for lack of evidence, and many 
alleged distinct species proposed in recent years are relegated to 
synonymy, though not without some explanation. In the case 
of several of the rarer or otherwise noteworthy species there are 
interesting annotations, sometimes extending over more than a 
page (about three pages for Schizaea and six for Corema),* and 
often accompanied by references to biographical sketches of the 
persons who first found them in the state. The time of flowering 
is given in most cases, and finally the known localities in the 
region, always classified according to the five natural divisions. 
On the whole, this catalogue gives all the information about 
the local distribution of the species that one could reasonably 
expect, and in that respect it is far ahead of most of the floras of 
states and smaller areas that have been published in recent years. 
It serves very nearly the same purpose for 1,400 northeastern 
plants that Mohr's Plant Life of Alabama does for 2,500 south- 
eastern plants, and measures well up to the high standard for 
local floras suggested in a valuable unsigned editorial in the 
Botanical Gazette for May, 1896. The information about habi- 
tats is more satisfactory on the whole than that found in our 
manuals, which treat such matters altogether too lightly. 
The whole treatise gives one the impression of being based on 
very thorough work, and leaving very little for future ppt 
* On page 634 the author notes a very i 
between the persimmon, the opossum and the neat (not the ciy- Geins but the 
rural or agricultural negro, whose northern range is more restricted). One can 
hear rumors of such a correlation in some of the southern states, and the reviewer 
as told as long ago as 1905 by Dr. Hollick while on a trip to the southern part 
Staten Island that it holds even there; but it perhaps has never been so definitely 
expressed in print before. 
