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Science of Botany ; illustrated on an entirely new principle, 

 by a Series of highly finished Delineations of the Plants, 

 coloured to represent Nature ; including Characteristic 

 Details of the Physiology, Uses, and Classification of the 

 Vegetable Kingdom. 1835. 1 vol., 8vo, 150 pages, and 

 1 plate of 4 coloured figures : some wood-engravings are 

 in the pages. The coloured delineations of plants are 

 detached, are of 4to size, in a set of 10, or one of 14, with 

 stands, and placed in an ornamented case. The volume, 

 and either of the sets of coloured delineations, are pur- 

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 and Smith. 



The author's manner is sketchy and sentimental ; the get- 

 ting-up of the book is what may be termed elegant ; and the 

 detached pictures are beautiful. Those of the technical points 

 of botany, to which the author's work introduces, are the 

 terms of the more obvious parts of plants, and examples 

 of them : the Linnaean classification, and the classification 

 according to the natural orders. The volume, and the de- 

 tached pictures, may avail those who have not a vigorous 

 appetite for a stricter knowledge of botany, and can afford to 

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Watson, H. C. : The New Botanist's Guide to the Localities 

 of the Rarer Plants of Britain ; on the Plan of Turner and 

 Dillwyn's Botanisfs Guide. Vol. I. England and Wales. 

 1835, sm. 8vo, 408 pages. London, Longman & Co. 



" This volume includes all the counties of England and 

 Wales, and will form a complete work in itself, if the publica- 

 tion of a second volume should be prevented by any unforeseen 

 circumstance. The counties of Scotland, with the adjacent 

 isles from Man to Shetland, are intended to be comprised in 

 the second volume, which will be ready in 1836. All com- 

 munications of localities, for insertion therein, should be made 

 as early as possible in the year. By adopting a smaller and 

 much closer type than that of Turner and Dillwyn's Guide, 

 the present volume has been reduced to one half the bulk, 

 notwithstanding that the large additions to the species and 

 localities of flowering plants, in many of the counties, will 

 more than counterbalance the omission of cryptogamic plants, 

 which comparatively few persons take the trouble to collect. 

 On a rude estimate, from a few pages taken at random, it 

 appears probable that the volume contains between 15,000 

 and 20,000 localities or stations (habitats, according to the 

 phraseology of many botanists), and most of these include 

 more than one proper name to each, some even half a dozen." 



