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subjects of study, are mentioned in the following pages, where they 
are arranged in the manner proposed in the ‘ Vegetable Kingdom’ of 
the author, with the sequence of matter departed from in a few 
instances, where it was believed that the convenience of younger stu- 
dents would be consulted by so doing. The author trusts that the 
selection will be found to have been made in such a way that all 
teachers who possess reasonably extensive means of illustrating their 
lectures, and all botanieal gardens, may furnish the larger part of the 
species which are mentioned. A small selection was indispensable ; 
firstly, because a greater work would have been beyond the reach of 
the majority of purchasers; and, secondly, because experience shows 
that those who have to study a scienee of observation, such as botany, 
require to concentrate the attention, in the first instance, upon a limited 
number of objects." 
Agreeing, as we heartily do, in the above remarks, we cannot help 
wishing, that Dr. Lindley, with his varied acquirements and experience, 
"would favour the world with a complete ‘Economie Flora,’ that is, as 
complete as the present state of our knowledge will admit. Such a 
work would be deeply interesting to every grade of mankind ; and to the 
merchant and the manufacturer it could not fail to be a means of laying 
open new sources of industry and wealth to our country and to our 
colonies. Notices of our ignorance of the. origin of many of our 
vegetable products would be the means of eliciting correct infor- 
mation; for such a book would, or ought to be, the vade mecum of 
every traveller who desires to benefit mankind by his researches. 
The volume before us contains brief generic and specific characters, 
in English, of the plants, and excellent figures of a great number (363) | 
of the species, the name of the country of which each is a native (the 
habitat), its qualities, and its uses. Dissections of the flowers and 
fruit are given in many cases, and the whole is rendered as popular as 
such a subject can be without detracting one iota from its scientific 
character. 
CvBELE BRITANNICA; or, the British Plants and their Geographical 
Relations; by Hewerr COTTRELL WATSON. Vol. IL Distribu- 
tion of Species (continued), LonaNTÉACEX to ALISMACEÆ. 8vo. 
London, 184 
The first volume of this valuable and carefully-prepared work was 
