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IN this handy and concise little volume Prof. Trelease describes the winter characters of 326 genera of trees and shrubs belonging to ninety-three families. With the exception of Larix and Taxodium, the Conifers are excluded, as these, being evergreen, have been adequately treated in the companion volume on “Plant Materials” issued in 1917. The book, though of American origin, includes most of the genera and species which the student is likely to find, wild or in cultivation, in this country, and should prove a useful handbook to the botanist who is interested in the determination of woody plants during the winter season. The generic description is in each case supplemented by a wood-cut illustrating the chief points to be observed, and by a brief key to the species which are likely to be found.
Winter Botany.
A Companion Volume to the Author's “Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening“. By Prof. W. Trelease. Pp. xxxii + 394. (Urbana: Published by the Author, 1918.) Price 2.50 dollars.
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Winter Botany . Nature 102, 363 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/102363a0
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