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Similar divisions of North America into-zones, sections, regions, 
distriets, areas, formations, ete., occupy the greater part of the volume, 
and, though the reviewer w ould like to believe that the regions with 
which he is personally una are better treated than the North- 
east, it is feared that only when the treatment is taken unaltered from 
the writings of some painstaking student will it prove to be anything 
but inaccurate. And what can be the character of the “ considera- 
tion” and statistics based upon such variegated data? Obviously, 
the less said the better. But the a a is, that to the Old 
World botanist who is unfamiliar with merica and to the 
American botanist whose primary work is in Eike lines the book is 
apt to be judged, not by its disheartening array of inaccuracies and 
blunders, but by the fact that it is one of the volumes of Engler and 
Drude’s series, Die Vegetation der Erde; and any conclusions which 
may beinnocently based by the unwary upon this “Survey” will 
always be open to doubt. 
[Reprinted, without change in paging. fro m RHoporRA, JOURNAL OF THE New 
Enguanp BOTANICAL CLus, vol. % (191 1). A blished In "Boston devoted to the 
flora of the northeastern United States. Boston Fi DT 
Building) and rg (Preston and Rounds Co.). ce $1. 
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