1925] Taylor, — Grier's Notes on the Flora of Long Island 215 



which is miles from Cold Spring Harbor, on the Hempstead Plains. 

 The former is also credited to the DeForest place. 



Inaccuracy as to plant names and place names characterizes all 

 the lists. Such work naturally stirs suspicion that some records are 

 incorrect, or that plants may have been misidentified. 



Millegrana Radiola, for instance, is recorded in Gray's Manual 

 only from "Ditches, Louisburg, Cape Breton," yet it is said to be 

 in "Vicinity, Cold Spring Harbor." No one, not even Jelliffe, who 

 was almost as inclusive as Dr. Grier, has recorded this rare introduced 

 plant from Long Island. 



Among the records of Hollick and Jeffrey of fossil plants, Dr. 

 Grier has included scores that are so far reported only from Staten 

 Island, and he cites them so. Why he or the editors admit them into 

 a native flora of Cold Spring Harbor may be known to them. To 

 others their inclusion looks very like useless consumption of printer's 

 ink. 



American botanists have lately been accused of an excessive 

 politeness in their criticisms of current botanical literature. Not- 

 withstanding the accusation, the reviewer attempted the desperate 

 expedient suggested by Rose and Stevens in Science n. s. 61: 656-057. 

 26 Je 1925. He wrote to one of the editors suggesting a curb, — not 

 a drastic one, but some sort of a curb. Nothing happened except 

 a continuance of the flood. L T nder such circumstances excessive 

 politeness must make way for reviews like this, the writing of which, 

 while not precisely a pleasure, becomes a duty. 



Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



Vol. 27, no. 323, including pages 189 lo 200, was issued 26 December, 1925 



