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and is in sympathetic relations with the leading horticult- 

 urists and growers and experimentalists. The problems 

 with which this book is concerned are either part of, or touch 

 so closely, the problems of greatest moment in modern 

 botany that the book, while not written for botanists, will be 

 found by them to be most readable and instructive. — w. L. J. 



Essentials of Vegetable Pharmacognosy. Part I. The 

 Gross Structure of Plants. By Henry H. Eusby, M. D. 

 Part II. The Minute Structure of Plants. By Smith 

 Ely Jeliffe, M. D. New York. D. D. Haynes & 

 Co. 1895. 



The text-books of botany designed for pharmaceutical stu- 

 dents^ which have come under the writer's eye^seem to have 

 been constructed largely on the plan of no physiology, a 

 modicum of gross morphology, and a varying amount of his- 

 tology, which usually involves so much study of minute 

 structure as will enable the student to recognize a second 

 time some plant-part useful in the materia medica. All this 

 is in a degree suggestive. Lack of interest in botanical sci- 

 ence, as well as lack of knowledge, is common to so many 

 pharmacists that among botanists it is a matter of comment. 

 The text-books, if reflective of botanical teaching in institutes 

 of pharmacy, obviously indicate the errors of method and 

 the absence of inspiration. 



The volume whose title heads our notice is certainly far 

 superior to most of the medical botanies and similar texts 

 that we have had opportunity to look into. Part I, which 

 makes up the larger portion of the volume, is given up to the 

 gross morphology of flowering plants. In this there is some- 

 thing of a physiological coloration which might well have 

 been intensified for the purpose of attracting the student and 

 holding his interest. However, we know of no similar text- 

 book which treats of " protection of fruits " and " seed dis- 

 tribution," or goes so f ally into such matters as pollination 

 and fertilization. 



