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well-written, well-illustrated, and well-printed account of the native 
and naturalized trees of the * Manual" region. Bits of the best from 
poets and prose-writers relieve the monotony of description, and the 
folklore of a number of trees is well if briefly told. 
Clements and Cutler's Manual.' — Dr. Bessey has long taken not 
only a theoretical but a very practical interest in secondary school 
training in the sciences, and the Nebraska high schools are reaching 
the point where their graduates can be said as a class to be better 
prepared for the real and serious study of botany for having had 
botany before entering college. Dr. Clements, of the University of 
Nebraska, and Mr. Cutler, of the Beatrice High School, have pre- 
pared this little book as an authoritative expression from the Uni- 
versity upon the desirable kind and amount of such preparatory 
study. And while its use is likely to be limited to Nebraska, it may 
well find place in the working library of any high school. T 
Notes. — “The Plant Covering of Ocracoke Island,” a study in 
the ecology of the North Carolina strand vegetation, by Thomas H. 
Kearney, Jr., constitutes No. 5 of the current volume of Contributions 
from the United States National Herbarium. It is illustrated by a 
number of figures in the text, representing structural adaptations. 
A paper by R. M. Harper, on the flora of Sumter County, Georgia, 
appears in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for August. 
Ecological lists, of some four hundred or five hundred species, are 
followed by critical notes on a considerable number of the species. 
A systematic key to the phanerogamic spring flora of Kansas City 
and vicinity has been prepared by Kenneth K. Mackenzie, for use 
in the high schools of that city, and is published as an octavo 
pamphlet of twenty-three pages. 
In the Botanical Gazette for September, Professor Nelson begins a 
series of “ Contributions from the Rocky Mountain Herbarium,” con- 
sisting of descriptions and critical notes on species and varieties 
believed to be undescribed. 
Part IV of Professor Piper's * New and Noteworthy Northwestern 
Plants,” in the July Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, contains a 
considerable number of new species, of various dicotyledonous groups. 
1 Clements, F. E., and Cutler, I. S. A Laboratory Manual of High School 
Botany. Lincoln, Nebraska, The University Publishing Company, 1900. 8vo, 
123 pp. 
