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and concludes it by remarking that, " without meaning to make him- 

 self responsible for the accuracy of all the details introduced into its 

 pages, I am ready to bear my humble testimony to the general truth- 

 fulness of the descriptions given, and may therefore venture to recom- 

 mend the book as one likely to supply a void in the popular scientific 

 literature of the day ; inasmuch as the subject is therein treated, on 

 the one hand, in a less perfunctory manner than is commonly done in 

 works embracing the entire extent of Physical Geography, and, on the 

 other, on a less dry and technical plan than appears to have been 

 hitherto the rule in the larger " treatises on the Geography of Plants 

 which have come before the public." 



The general plan or aiTaugement of the work is that of Meyen's 

 ' Botanical Geography,' and that has supplied the framework of the 

 greater part, the botanical details being generally derived from other 

 sources, and these sources are fully acknowledged in their appropriate 

 places or in the Author's Preface. The useful diagrams and maps are 

 adapted from the best authorities, as are the characteristic features of 

 vegetation in the plates ; but these plates, being executed by the same 

 artist as those in Dr. Seemann's book* lately noticed, are certainly no 



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have not the shadow of a resemblance to the plants themselves. Here 

 however the plates are placed opposite their respective descriptions. 

 _ The work is divided into twelve heads or chapters, and the vegeta- 

 tion of a certain zone is briefly treated of under each :— 1. The Folar 

 Zone, including all the lands above 72° of lat. 2. The Arctic (and 

 Antarctic) Zone, between the Arctic (and Antarctic) Circle and 72°. 

 3. The Subarctic, from 58° to the last-mentioned zone. 4. The Colder 



Temperate Zone, from 45° to 58° of latitude. -5. The .. „ 



perate Zone, from 34° to 45° of latitude. 6. The Subtropical Zone 

 from the Tropics to 34° of latitude. 7. The Tropical Zone, from 15 

 of lat. to the Tropics. 8. The Equatorial Zone, including 15° of lat. 

 on each side the equator. The 9th and last chapter is devoted to " the 

 distribution of British Plants, and their relations with the different 

 Floras of the Continent," on which subject the writings of Professor 

 1 orbes have been the Author's cldef guide. 



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