THE AMERICAS BOTAKIST, 
book that gives especial importance to the identifving' 
plants from their fruits. This .\Iiss Peterson has suppliecL 
The descriptions begin with the fruit, but includes descrip- 
tions of the flowers, leaves and other parts also, and the 
father difficult kev is of course based principally on fruit 
characters. There are about one hundred illustrations in 
black and white and one colored plate. About two 
hundred species are described, about all, it mav be said 
that are conspicuous in our northern flora br reason of 
their fruits. This will be an excellent handbook to go 
with your favorite manual for naming the plants from 
their flowers. (New York, The AlaeAIillan Co., 1905, 
$1.50 net.) 
There is a ikmiliar look about Atkinson's "College 
Botany" due to its resemblance to the author's earlier 
"Elementary Botany," but an examination ol the new 
vork shows 
work has beei 
) l>e supt-rficial only 
in, re-arranged and greatlv 
mcreasecl m extent and now under the new title is one ui 
the best single-volume botanical text books to be found . 
The ^ 
which are dominated 
by Physiology, Morphology, Ecology and Taxono 
their order- An u 
space has been gh 
to the relation of the plant and its parts to i 
uigs and throughout the book subjects that are often 
passed with a mere mention in other works are discussed 
at length. A very commendable feature is the series of 
tables of the classes, orders and families from algie to the 
highest flowering plants. The illusrration> ha vclilso l>ecii 
increased and now number nearly six hundrec. The only 
bad feature of the book comes from the use of these illus- 
trations which (many of them being from photographs) 
require the use of coated paper and thus add greatly to 
the weight of the book. The text is accurately and clear- 
ly written and covers upward of seven hundred pages. It 
will prove of great usefulness to teachers as well as to 
students of botany. (Xew York, Henr^^ Holt & Co 
1905, $2.00.) 
