Just Published, Second Edition, demy 8vo., Price 7s. 6d., cloth, 

 with 20 Engravings, beautifully coloured after Nature, 



KAMBLES in Search of FLOWEBLESS 



PLANTS. 



BY MARGARET PLUES, 



Author of "Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers.'* xc 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



" This handsome and elegantly illustrated volume is a good specimen of a 

 class of works to which the popularization of science is mainly due. It affords 

 just the kind of help that beginners want. Miss Plues writes iu an interesting 

 and agreeable style, and her directions for the finding of objects and the identi- 

 fication of species are judiciously conveyed." — Intellectual Observer. 



'•It is hardly within the bounds of possibility that any purchaser of this 

 volume could be otherwise than delighted with its contents." — Smith and Elder's 

 Literary Circular. 



'•Miss Plues writes very simply and clearly, and makes the mysteries of ferns, 

 mosses, lichens, sea-weeds, and fungi as intelligible as the nature of the subject 

 allows. Any one who is beginning the study could hardly find a better or more 

 pleasing guide. A number of coloured plates and carefully drawn outlines of 

 the reproductive organs will help him greatly on his way. The book is one of 

 the most useful we have met with for its purpose." — Guardian. 



*'The authoress of 'Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers' has now produced 

 another charming book on an equally delightful subject, rather varying her key 

 than changing into another theme. ' Flowerless Plants ' invite attention by their 

 very lack of pretension, they are so lovely as well as so humble. "We predict a 

 large sale for the volume." — Standard. 



" Xot less beautiful than plants with flowers are plants flowerless. They have 

 not the beauty of varied colour, but they make up for it by a wondrous beauty 

 of form. And she who writes about them writes well. We who love to wander, 

 carelessly careful, can appreciate the loving labour which she has devoted to 

 the subject, and can follow her with pleasure in her descriptions of the trips she 

 undertook, and the rare and beautiful things she found. There are few ladies 

 who go to the sea-side for a time without making a collection of the beautiful 

 alga. In this cheap and handsome A~olume they may learn all about their prizes. 

 — Morning Herald. 



" Miss Plues' method is essentially popular. She takes the young botanist 

 along with her into the woods, hill-sides, or sea-shore, finds her plants in their 

 native habitats, and forthwith describes them. The literary part of the work is 

 characterised by much quiet elegance and beauty which lends a fine relief to its 

 more scientific features. We can hardly imagine a more pleasing guide to a 

 beginner in cryptogamic botany, or one more likely to entice to further progress. 

 As such we give it our cordial recommendation." — Daily Review. 



" Miss Plues is already well known from her ' Rambles in search of Wild 

 Flowers.' In the present volume she takes up another and far more neglected 

 group of plants, and discourses of them in such a strain as to prove that this 

 neglect is in a great measure undeserved. Ferns, mosses, seaweeds, lichens, and 

 fungi seldom find favour with amateur botanists ; yet no sooner are they looked 

 upon with an attentive and loving eye than they reveal peculiar beauties and 

 attractions. Our readers have now onlv themselves to blame if thev collect 

 plants merelv for their rich colours and elegant forms. In this work thev mav, 

 with little trouble, learn much of the structure and uses of these obscure plan:-, 

 and in the coloured plates and woodcuts they will rind a means of recognising 

 the species." — Scotsman. 



