1894.] Botany. 707 
The Completion of Coulter's Texan Flora.—Within a few 
weeks, botanists have received copies of Part III of Dr. John M. 
Coulter’s “ Manual of the Phanerogams and Pteridophytes of Western 
Texas," published by the Department of Agriculture, as one of the 
Contributions from the U. 8. National Museum. A glance over its 
pages shows it to be an important contribution to North American 
botany, covering, as it does, a region whose botany has hitherto been scat- 
tered through many different reports and papers. That the work is 
well-done, need not be said of anything from the masterhand of Dr. 
Coulter, who has here again shown his ability to make a much needed 
book. This volume carries southward the area covered by Coulter's 
“Rocky Mountain Botany," and gives to the author a kind of “ pre- 
emption right" to a belt of botanical territory stretching from the 
Canadian line on the north (N. Dakota, Montana and Idaho) to the 
Mexican boundary on the south (Texas and New Mexico). It will 
clearly be his duty to enlarge his * Rocky Mountain Botany," so as to 
take in the territory of this Texan Flora; then by addingthe Arizona- , 
Nevada region, make it cover the whole of the Western Highlands, 
from about the 100th meridian to, but not including, the Pacific Coast 
Region. Such a “Botany of the Western Highlands” would, on 
many accounts, be much more likely to be successful than the two or 
three manuals which it now seems pr we are to have for this re- 
gion.—CHARLES E. Bessey. 
