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edition, ii. 843-851. A work that the British botanist must possess : 

 it is essential to a knowledge of the Botany of these Islands. 



Hand-book of Field Botany, by W. E. Steele, ii. 987. This work 

 omits a very great portion of the more useful parts of Hooker's Flora 

 and Babington's Manual, and contains no useful additions to make 

 amends: it appears ill-adapted for students, the arrangement of matter 

 being obscure, and in many instances unintelligible. 



Circulation of the Sap, by G. Rainey, ii. 1027. A little essay 

 showing great patience and research, although I am not fully pre- 

 pared to assert that the author's conclusions are satisfactory. 



London Catalogue of British Plants, second edition, ii. 1051. 

 Every botanist must possess it. 



The original communications are still more replete with interest 

 than the reviews, and T trust that the extracts fiom other sources will 

 also be perused with satisfaction. Having undertaken the publication 

 of a periodical like the ' Phytologist,' it appears desirable to collect 

 from all sources such information as may be acceptable to my readers. 

 Although always reluctant to single out contributions for especial 

 notice, I cannot refrain from inviting the most studious attention to 

 Mr. Wilson's Papers on Embryology : these papers must occupy a 

 higher place in the scientific literature of the year than any that have 

 appeared during the same period : our country has reason to be proud 

 of such researches, and the ' Phytologist ' is honoured in being selected 

 as the vehicle for their publication. 



The taste for writing on the potato-disease has subsided with the 

 disease itself; the writers on this subject have not advanced a step 

 towards discovering the cause or suggesting a remedy ; the only result 

 of their publications has been by keeping up the alarm to promote 

 that speculation in potatoes, wheat and other articles of food, which 

 during the present year has been carried to such an insane and reck- 

 less extent, that the commerce and credit of the nation has been 

 almost completely suspended. It has however pleased an all-wise and 

 beneficent Providence to send us such abundant crops of potatoes and 



