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of which are original, probably have not come out quite as was 
intended, and it is not evident that most of them really serve the 
purpose of the book ; but two or three of them are very attractive. 
The Grasses of Uruguay. — Prof. J. Archevalato has recently 
brought together in a large volume’ the results of his study of this 
important group. The first twenty-eight pages are devoted to an 
organographic account of the grasses, some thirty-five pages are given — 
to a discussion of what is called applied agrostology, and a very full 
index to both popular and scientific names occupies twenty-two 
pages. The remainder of the work consists of rather full descriptions 
of the species. Unfortunately, keys, which would have made the 
work more usable, have not been provided either for genera or 
species. T. 
The Metropolitan Parks of Boston. — The last report written by 
Charles Eliot,? which is very tastefully gotten up, contains much of 
interest to the landscape architect, many plates which ingeniously 
indicate by means of folding duplicate foregrounds the means of 
improving existing features, and an analysis of the commoner types 
of woodland scenery, which, with the accompanying reproductions of 
photographs, will also be of use to persons interested in plant com- 
munities as viewed by the œcologist. T. 
Botanical Notes. — The vegetation of the white sands east of the 
San Andreas Mountains, in southern New Mexico, on which Miss 
Eastwood had previously published, forms the subject of a note in 
the issue of Science of July 29, by Cockerell and Garcia, from which 
it appears that on these sands, 97% of the substance of which is 
gypsum (calcium sulphate), a considerable flora flourishes, some of 
the constituents of which appear to have undergone considerable 
modification in connection with their environment. 
Professor Hitchcock, who for some years has been studying the 
weeds of Kansas, publishes, as Bulletin No. 80 of the Experiment 
Station of the Kansas State Agricultural College, a paper on their dis- 
tribution. For the 209 species listed, the geographical distribution 
report written by Charles Eliot and presente 
sion, Feb. 15, 1897, by Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot, Landscape Architects. 
Lamson, Wolffe & Co., Boston, New York, and London, 1898. 
