L. REEVE AND CO.’S8 PUBLICATIONS. 5 
BOTANY. 
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF: PLANTS. . By H. 
Baition, President of the Linnzean Society of Paris, Professor of Medical 
Natural History and Director of the Botanical Garden of the Faculty of 
Medicine of Paris. Translated by Marcus M. Harroe, Trinity College, 
Cambridge. Super-royal 8vo. Vol. I., with 503 Wood Engravings, 25s. 
Of the accuracy and excellence of this great. work, the position of the author. 
as a Botanist of the first rank, and an original investigator, is a sufficient 
guarantee. Its popular readable style will commend it to all those who desire 
to become acquainted with the wonderful variety of form and structure found in 
the vegetable kingdom, but are deterred by the technicalities of other botanical 
works. The Illustrations, unequalled for beauty, clearness, and accuracy, and 
abundant in sectional detail of Flower, Fruit, and Seed, add greatly to the value 
as well as to the attractiveness of the work. The Geographical Distribution 
and the useful or noxious properties of Plants are duly noted at the end of each 
family. In the Notes will be found full references to authorities and such 
other matter as the advanced botanist may require. ‘The First Volume, con- 
tains the Families RANUNCULACEH, DILLENIACE&, MaGNOLIACE&, ANONA- 
ce&, Monim1ace®, and Rosacem®. The second volume is in the press, and 
the continuation will keep pace with the French Edition. 
DOMESTIC BOTANY; an Exposition of the Structure and 
Classification of Plants, and of their uses for Food, Clothing, Medicine, 
and Manufacturing Purposes. By JouHN Smit, A.L.S., ex-Curator of 
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Crown 8vo, pp. 560, with 16 Coloured 
Plates and Wood Eugravings, 16s. 
A handy book of the Vegetable Kingdom, containing a large amount of in- 
teresting information, relative to the uses of Plants to man in this country, as 
well as in those where they grow. 
Re 
HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA; a Descrip- 
tion of the Flowering Plants and Ferns indigenous to, or naturalized in, the 
British Isles. For the Use of Beginners and Amateurs. By GrorGE 
BentuaM, F-.R.S., President of the Linnean Society. New Edition, Crown 
8vo, 680 pp., 12s. 
Distinguished for its terse and clear style of description ; for the introduction 
of a system of Analytical Keys, which enable the student to determine the family 
and genus of a plant at once by the observation of its more striking characters , 
and for the valuable information here given for the first time of the geographical 
range of each species in foreign countries. 
HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA, I[tuvusrratep 
Epit1on; a Description (with a Wood-Engraving, including dissections, of 
each species) of the Flowering Plants and Ferns indigenous to, or natu- 
ralized in, the British Isles. By Georcr Bentuaw, F.R.S., President of 
the Linnean Society. Demy 8vo, 2 vols., 1154 pp., 1295 Wood-Engravings, 
from Original Drawings by W. Fitcu, £3. 10s. 
An illustrated edition of the foregoing Work, in which every species is ac- 
companied by an elaborate Wood-Engraving of the Plant, with dissections of its 
leading structural peculiarities. 
