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  to 
  be 
  a 
  long 
  discussion, 
  give 
  approval: 
  in 
  fact 
  we 
  do 
  Dot 
  quite 
  

   understood 
  the 
  relation 
  which 
  this 
  work 
  sustains 
  to 
  the 
  associa- 
  

   tion 
  check-list 
  recently 
  promulgated, 
  nor 
  do 
  we 
  favor 
  the 
  liberty 
  

   which 
  has 
  been 
  taken 
  with 
  many 
  species. 
  Critical 
  comments 
  rel- 
  

   ative 
  to 
  disputed 
  cases 
  can. 
  however, 
  be 
  better 
  lelt 
  until 
  the 
  

   completion 
  of 
  the 
  work. 
  As 
  the 
  treatise 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  in 
  a 
  

   state 
  of 
  promising 
  forwardness, 
  we 
  may 
  not 
  have 
  long 
  to 
  wait 
  for 
  

   the 
  remaining 
  volumes. 
  We 
  congratulate 
  the 
  authors 
  on 
  their 
  

   success 
  in 
  conducting 
  this 
  work. 
  Whatever 
  divergence 
  of 
  views 
  

   there 
  may 
  be 
  in 
  regard 
  to 
  certain 
  descriptions, 
  ames, 
  ranges 
  and 
  

   figures, 
  there 
  can 
  be 
  but 
  one 
  opinion 
  as 
  irkable 
  energy 
  

  

  with 
  which 
  this 
  undertaking 
  has 
  been 
  carried 
  on. 
  The 
  authors 
  

   have 
  made 
  what 
  must, 
  in 
  all 
  fairness, 
  be 
  regarded 
  as 
  a 
  very 
  im- 
  

   portant 
  and, 
  we 
  hope, 
  useful 
  contribution 
  to 
  our 
  knowledge 
  of 
  

   American 
  plants. 
  The 
  price 
  at 
  which 
  this 
  work 
  is 
  sold 
  is 
  

   extremely 
  low. 
  and 
  should 
  ensure 
  its 
  rinding 
  a 
  place 
  on 
  the 
  work- 
  

   ing 
  table 
  of 
  amateurs 
  and 
  professional 
  botanists 
  throughout 
  its 
  

   range. 
  G. 
  l. 
  g. 
  

  

  2. 
  Notes 
  07} 
  the 
  Flora 
  of 
  Newfoundk 
  R 
  L. 
  Robinson 
  

  

  and 
  H. 
  ton 
  Schrexk. 
  — 
  As 
  a 
  matter 
  of 
  record 
  we 
  call 
  attention 
  to 
  

   this 
  interesting 
  paper 
  in 
  the 
  January 
  and 
  April 
  numbers 
  of 
  the 
  

   Canadian 
  Record 
  of 
  Science. 
  The 
  authors 
  visited 
  the 
  island 
  in 
  

   1694, 
  and 
  made 
  such 
  ( 
  is 
  as 
  were 
  possible 
  in 
  the 
  last 
  days 
  

  

  of 
  July 
  and 
  nearly 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  August. 
  They 
  added 
  more 
  than 
  

   a 
  hundred 
  species 
  which 
  had 
  not 
  hitherto 
  been 
  recorded 
  as 
  found 
  

   in 
  the 
  island. 
  g. 
  l. 
  g. 
  

  

  o. 
  The 
  Survival 
  of 
  the 
  Unlike. 
  A 
  collectio 
  of 
  JEhu 
  . 
  r 
  . 
  

   Essays 
  suggested 
  by 
  the 
  stud', 
  of 
  Domestic 
  Plants 
  ; 
  by 
  L. 
  H. 
  

   Bailey. 
  Xew 
  York. 
  1896 
  (The 
  Macmillan 
  Co.).— 
  -This 
  interest- 
  

   ing 
  volume 
  takes 
  its 
  name 
  from 
  the 
  first 
  essay 
  in 
  its 
  pages. 
  The 
  

   author 
  holds 
  that 
  the 
  unlikenesses 
  in 
  plants 
  are 
  ( 
  1) 
  the 
  expressions 
  

   of 
  the 
  ever-changing 
  environmental 
  conditions 
  in 
  which 
  plants 
  

   grow, 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  incidental 
  stimuli 
  to 
  which 
  they 
  are 
  expos, 
  3 
  ; 
  

   (2) 
  the 
  result 
  of 
  the 
  force 
  of 
  mere 
  growth 
  : 
  (3) 
  the 
  outcome 
  of 
  

   sexual 
  mixing. 
  They 
  survive 
  because 
  they 
  are 
  unlike, 
  and 
  

   thereby 
  enter 
  into 
  fields 
  of 
  least 
  competition. 
  Leaving 
  out 
  the 
  

   second 
  of 
  these 
  categories, 
  the 
  position 
  is 
  a 
  strong 
  one. 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  

   well 
  maintained. 
  Professor 
  Bail* 
  . 
  ves. 
  and 
  we 
  cannot 
  

  

  believe 
  otherwise 
  in 
  view 
  of 
  horticultural 
  experience, 
  that 
  plants 
  

   can 
  be 
  profoundly 
  modified 
  by 
  different 
  external 
  conditions, 
  and 
  

   that 
  these 
  modifications 
  tend 
  to 
  persist. 
  We 
  are 
  greatly 
  indebted 
  

   to 
  the 
  author 
  for 
  the 
  untiring 
  assiduity 
  with 
  which 
  he 
  has 
  pur- 
  

   sued 
  the 
  task 
  of 
  accumulating 
  evidence 
  and 
  tor 
  the 
  skill 
  with 
  

   which 
  he 
  marshals 
  his 
  proofs. 
  g. 
  l. 
  g, 
  

  

  4. 
  Sphagm 
  Boreal 
  i- 
  Americano 
  .£..<:/ 
  -■: 
  euraverunt 
  D, 
  

   C. 
  Eatox 
  et 
  E. 
  Faxox, 
  New 
  Haven, 
  1896. 
  — 
  In 
  June, 
  1893, 
  Prof. 
  

   Eaton 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Faxou 
  issued 
  a 
  prospectus 
  of 
  an 
  intended 
  distri- 
  

   bution 
  of 
  sets 
  of 
  North 
  American 
  Sphagna, 
  but 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  

   Prof. 
  Eaton 
  in 
  June, 
  1895, 
  made 
  it 
  necessary 
  for 
  his 
  son. 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  

   F. 
  Eaton, 
  to 
  complete 
  the 
  arrangement 
  of 
  the 
  sets 
  prepared 
  by 
  

  

  