take delight in showing all sorts of variation from their Eastern cousins. Our lower forms of plant life, which are very numerous, have not yet been thoroughly investigated or described, but it is to be hoped that Mr. Howell will receive enough encouragement to induce him to write a second volume which will describe these lower forms.

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