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THE FLORA OF COLORADO.* 
T HE geological survey of tlie Territories under the direction of Dr. F. Y, 
Hayden is not merely restricted to pure geology and geography, for the 
other branches of natural history are equally and carefully attended to. 
The “ Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado” has been prepared by Professors 
Porter and Coulter from collections chiefly made during the progress of the 
survey in 1861 and succeeding years. More than 1,250 species are 
enumerated, of which descriptions, as well as of the orders and genera are 
given of those not contained in u Gray’s Manual ” and other botanies of the 
States east of the Mississippi river. 
The greater number are Phaenogamous plants. There are twelve species 
of Coniferae, and about thirty vascular cryptogams; the 130 species of 
mosses are described by Professor Lesquereux, which, considering this class 
of plants was not made a specialty by the botanical collectors, as well as 
the comparative bareness and absence of humidity of the eastern slopes of 
the Rocky Mountains, forms a remarkably rich and interesting catalogue. 
The lichens and fungi are described by Messrs. Willey and Peck. The 
work is intended to be a type of a series of u handbooks ” of different branches- 
of natural history, to be published from time to time for the use of students 
all over the country, and forms a valuable contribution to our knowledge of 
the flora of the region. 
RELIQULE ACQUIT ANICLE.f 
T HIS number of the “ Reliquiae ” contains two or three very interesting 
papers, one good plate of flint weapons, and several remarkably excel- 
lent woodcuts. First is a translation of M. Lartet’s paper on an elephant’s- 
carved tusk, which is taken from the 11 Comptes Rendus ” of the French 
Academy. Then follows a paper by the editor on a curious carving of a 
glutton on an antler from one of the Dordogne caves. This contains an ex- 
cellent sketch of the glutton, drawn by Mr. N. L. Austen, who, we regret to- 
say, has died through a horse-accident before this number appeared, and 
who was the author of an excellent paper in this number of the u Reliquiae ” 
on the u Scandinavian Reindeers.” The final communication is by M. le 
Dr. H. E. Sauvage of Paris, on the subject of “ Fishing during the Reindeer 
Period,” which is a very good paper, containing some startling fishing sta- 
tistics by Mr. Lord. 
* u Geological Survey of the Territories. — Miscellaneous Publications, 
No. 4. Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado.” By T. C. Porter and J. M. 
Coulter. Washington, 1874. 
f u Reliquiae Acquitanicae.” By E. Lartet and H. Christy. Edited by T. 
Rupert Jones, F.R.S. Part XV. London : Williams & Norgate. 
