PHYTOLOGY. 



THE STUDENT'S FLORA.* 







I^VR. Hooker, following the example of his illustrious father, 

 *^ has published a Flora of the British Isles. Those who 

 have not yet seen the "Student's Flora," must not think that it 

 is merely a new edition of Hooker and Arnott's British Flora : it is 

 quite a new work, and though resembling in some respects the 

 above-mentioned Flora by Hooker and Arnott, contains, in addi- 

 tion, much information not before brought together in any one 

 manual of British plants. The object of the Student's Flora is 

 "to supply students and field-botanists with a fuller account of 

 the plants of the British Islands than the manuals hitherto in 

 use aim in giving," and for this purpose Dr. Hooker has not only 

 given descriptions (mostly original) of the plants, but has also 

 indicated area and altitude (when above 1,000 feet) that each 

 plant attains, — these particulars of course being taken from Wat- 

 son's works, and, for Ireland, from the "Cybele Hibernica." The 

 exotic distribution is also given, as well as estimates of the num- 

 ber of genera in each order, and of the species in each genus, 

 &c. The latest edition of the "London Catalogue" has been 

 followed almost entirely in regard to the number and kinds of 

 plants composing the British Flora ; Dr. Hooker not caring ap- 

 parently to enter into the difficult question of what are indi- 

 genous and what are naturalized plants. Upwards of 200, how- 

 ever, are placed in an appendix of excluded species : two or 

 three words as regards the reason for exclusion being alloted 

 to each. Many of these plants, proved never to have been found 

 in Britain, are well placed here — preparatory, we hope, to being 

 omitted altogether in the next edition — but for some of the 

 others (being either probably native or well naturalized) room for 



*" The Student's Flora of the British Isles," by J. D. Hooker, C.B., M.D.. 

 <fcc., London, Macmillan <fc Co., 1870. 



