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mention only two genera, and in these cases extensive series 

 of plants were grown under observation for the purpose of 

 study. 



The recently established Botany School at Cambridge 

 must be mentioned as a pioneer establishment for the 

 better study of British systematic botany with efficient 

 organisation for the encouragement of all who are interested 

 in systematic botany (or ecology). Here, again, the same 

 unfailing courtesy and patient endeavour to assist the 

 inquirer or student meets one, and it cannot be too 

 strongly urged that the general public should recognise the 

 admirable facilities that exist for the furtherance of botany 

 (in other domains alike) for those who will take the trouble 

 to discover them. 



Membership of scientific societies, such as the Linnean 

 Society, where botany is one object of study, will bring the 

 student into contact with other, and more advanced, 

 workers, and this will have a stimulating and educative 

 effect, apart from other material advantages to be gained. 



The identification of material collected may be attempted 

 with any of the following works, where details of habitat, 

 flowering season, distribution, etc., are also to be found : 



Handbook of the British Flora. — Bentham. 



Handbook of British Flora (illustrated by Fitch). — 

 Bentham and Hooker. 



Student's Flora, 3rd edition. — Hooker. 



Babington's Manual. 



English Botany (Syme's edition). — Sowerby. 



Hay ward's Botanist's Pocket-book, 1909. — G. C. Druce. 



The Cambridge Flora, vol. ii. — Dr. Moss. 



Prodromus Florae Britannicae, vol. i. — F. N. Williams. 



The following works are essential to the study of systematic 

 botany : 



Classification of Flowering Plants, vol. i. — Dr. A. B. Rendle. 



