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THIS is the fourth part of a series of plates and descriptions of the rarer American grasses which has been issued by the United States Department of Agriculture. The first volume was devoted to the species of Texas and the south-west, and the present volume, which is now finished, contains plates and descriptions of the grasses of California, Oregon, Washington, and the north-western coast, including Alaska. Dr. Vasey, who for many years was head of the department at Washington, died before the present volume was issued. He was a native of Yorkshire, who emigrated to the Western States in early life. For many years Dr. Vasey lived in Illinois, and was one of the leading authorities on the plants of the Western States. He was already advanced in years when he became a government servant, and made a special study of the grasses.
Grasses of the Pacific Slope; including Alaska and the Adjacent Islands.
Part II. By Dr. George Vasey, Botanist to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Issued June 1, 1893. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893.)
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B., J. Our Book Shelf. Nature 48, 411 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048411a0
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