929, THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
scribers, he will be compelled to stop the further publication of the 
book, What a misfortune that would be to fern-students requires 
no deqnibintun: AG. 
Manual aus Trees 2 North America riiea of Mexico). By 
s Sprac nen with 644 illustrations from 
aaa by Cua HARLES p Faxon. 8vo, cloth, pp. xxiii, 
Boston : Hodglitads Miftin & Co. 
Tus well printed, well bound, and in every way attractive 
volume brings within the reach of those iene purses and book- 
shelves are limited the information stored in the author's Silva of 
North America, Mr. Sargent is, of course, the leading authority on 
North American i and the students for whom he has prepared 
this volume will not be the only ones who will welcome this 
ae" oe ual, 
er followed is that of CEs & Prantl’s Die Natiirlichen 
Piaisepanien. which seems destined to replace, at no distant date, 
the Genera Plantarum of Bentham and Hooker. The introductory 
i 
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orth America shows the eight principal tree 
e descriptions are “very but not too) full, and evince a 
thorough knowledge of the trees and of their distribution ; the 
illustrations are evidently drawn with care, and, although small, 
are characteristic. Whether the student of Crategus—a genus 
hi to Americans 
will be able to distinguish the species by the figures is, we 
think, uncertain; but it may be doubted whether any one but a 
specialist in the genus ead be able to eearae the plants them- 
lv u 
alone. The omission from Mr. Sargent’s volume, probably due to 
the exigencies of space, of anything in the way of synonymy renders 
it difficult to ascertain where the reductions have been effected. In 
a book intended mainly for use in the field, or in connection with 
the plants themselves, such omission may be justified, but a limited 
name retained was published, would certainly have added to the 
general usefulness * the work, ‘itedintly as many of the names 
are far yee fami 
r two ayers suggest criticism. We regret to see the 
iidirevinticat “ Britt.”” employed for the name of Dr. N. L. Britton. 
There are two botanists whose names may be so abbrevia 
