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130 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [VoL. XXXII. 
The carices of the list, so far as represented by the collections 
of Professor Trelease, have been identified by Prof. L. H. Bailey, 
and the cellular cryptogams by a number of specialists. At the 
close of the paper is a generic index and a bibliography of Azorean 
botany. The whole report is not only a great credit to its author, 
but forms the most noteworthy piece of recent American work upon 
any extra-American flora. BI E 
The Flora of British India. — With the publication of the title- 
page and preface of the seventh volume, and a full index (collated 
with the /ndex Kewensis) to the entire work, Zhe Flora of British 
India‘ is brought to a close at the end of 1897. In the quarter of a 
century consumed in its publication the area to which it is devoted 
has materially increased, and many new collections have been 
brought to the hands of its indefatigable editor and his collaborators, 
so that it is but natural that the later volumes should be more thor- 
ough than the earlier ones. Valuable jt is, throughout ; and yet, as 
Dr. Hooker remarks in the preface to the concluding volume, the 
treatise is to be regarded as a pioneer work rather than a finished 
flora. There is no reason to doubt, however, that time will justify 
his very modestly expressed hope that it may not only enable 
botanists to name with some accuracy a host of Indian plants, but 
that it may further facilitate the compilation of local floras and 
monographs and the discussion of the problems of the distribution 
of plants from the point of view of what he very well characterizes 
as perhaps the richest and certainly the most varied botanical area 
on the surface of the globe, and one which, in a greater degree than 
any other, contains representatives of the floras of both the Eastern 
and Western Hemispheres. : 
Miss Eastwood’s Studies.” — In the second part of the recently 
inaugurated botanical section of the Proceedings of the California 
Academy of Sciences, Miss Eastwood gives interesting information 
concerning a number of plants from the White Sands of New 
Mexico; a comparative study of spurless forms of Aquilegia, in 
1 The Flora of British India. By Sir J. D. Hooker, assisted by various bota- 
nists. London. L. Reeve & Co. Pts. xxiii and xxiv. Price 18s. net. — The 
dates of publication of the volumes, as follows: i, May 1872—Feb. 1875; ii, May . 
1876-May 1879; iii, May 1880-Dec. 1882; iv, June 1883-Aug. 1885; v, Aug. 
1886-Apr. 1890; vi, Dec. 1890—Apr. 1894; vii, 1896-1897. 
2 Alice Eastwood, Studies in the Herbarium and the Field. No.1. Proc. 
Calif. Acad. Sci: 3 ser. Botany, i, No. 2, 71-86. Pl. VI, VII. 
