No. 443-] NOTES AND LITERATURE. 



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In all respects the treatment of the subject is modern. The phylo- 

 genetic arrangement of Engler and Prantl is essentially adopted; the 

 Neo-American practice in nomenclature is followed as consistently as 

 it is likely to be followed— familiar generic names being added as 

 synonyms when discarded under this practice; and genera and spe- 

 cies have been subjected to the prevalent minute segregation. Opin- 

 ions may and do differ greatly as to the desirability of some of these 

 practices, and in the last-named respect Dr. Small is scarcely sur- 

 passed by any living botanist on this side of the ocean : but by what 

 appear to be well-made keys and terse contrasted descriptions he 

 makes reasonably clear his idea of the species that he names — 6364 

 m number, grouped under 1494 genera, pertaining to 236 families, of 

 62 orders. 



Notes.— An unusually satisfactory series of plates showing autum- 

 nal coloration of foliage is contained in a paper on "Tree planting on 

 Streets and Highways," by W. F. Fox, published at Albany, by the 

 Forest, Fish and Game Commission of New York. 



A capital treatise on woody plants in winter, illustrated by numer- 

 ous habit, bark and detail figures, by Schneider, has been issued 

 from the press of Gustav Fischer, Jena, under the title Dendrolo- 

 gische Winterstudien. 



G. Cummings," is contained in Part I of the Transactions of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society for 1903. 



"A Primer of Forestry," by Finchot, is published as Farmers' 

 Bulletin No. 173 of the Departme t of Agriculture. 



The value of oak leaves for forage is discussed by Mackie in 

 Bulletin No. 150 of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the 

 University of California. 



hose issued by the Experiment S 

 listributed by the Biologische AMI 

 chaft, of the Kaiserhches Gesundh 

 1 Flugblatter." 



The forage conditions and proble 

 rn Oregon, Northeastern California 



