Valuable Book on the Plants
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of Hawaii
THE second edition of “New Illustrated Flora of the Hawaiian Islands,” by Otto Degener, is a remarkable com pilation. It contains no less than 1,200 pages, specially bound, and each page carries a full description and in nearly every case an illustration of a plant that grows in Hawaii. We get here the com mon English name, the Hawaiian name, and one correct scientific name of each plant. There is an extensive index, a general description of Hawaii, an his torical sketch of Hawaiian botany, a glos sary of botanical terms—and all sorts of other information which makes the book indispensable to anyone interested in tropical plants.
Mr. Degener says: “This is a war emergency edition printed on inferior paper. The first edition was far superior —but it was completely destroyed by the tidal wave in Hawaii.” The book is sold for 6 dollars. An advertisement about it appears in this issue.