D. APPLET ON. & CO: S PUBLICATIONS. 



A NEW BOOK BY LOUIS FIGUZER. 



THE VEGETABLE WORLD; 



BEING 



A HISTORY OF PLANTS, 



WITH THEIR BOTANICAL DESCRIPTIONS AND PECULIAR PROPERTIES. 

 BY LOUIS FIGUIER, 



AtTTHOE OF "THE WOELD BEFOEE THE DELUGE." 



Illustrated with Four Hundred and Forty-six Engravings interspersed through the 

 text, and Twenty-four full-page Illustrations, 



Chiefly 3)rawn from Nature, by M. JFA. G U^T, 



ILLOSTBATOK TO THE BOTANICAL COURSE OF THE FACPLT5T OF SCIENCES OF PAEI8. 



One vol., '8 vo, beautifully printed. 584 pages. Cloth, $6.00; Half Calf, 

 $8.50; Full Calf, $10.50. 



"The present volume maybe considered as the second contribution which M. Figuier has 

 made toward his Tableau de la Nature. ' The World before the Deluge 1 contemplates a period 

 in the earth's history when its natural ornament was absent; when its surface was an arid desert 

 a vast solitude, the abode of silence and death. Plants preceded animals in the order of creation ; 

 when the great animals which preceded men were create* by the wisdom of the Eternal, the 

 earth was already clothed in a mantle of vegetation. * * * * The History of Plants 

 which is now submitted to the reader is divided into four parts: I. The Organography and Phys- 

 iology of Plants. II. The Classification of Plants. III. The Natural Families of Plants. IV 

 The Geographical Distribution of Plan ia."" Extract from Prtfa.ce. 



"A volume which furnishes reading of the most attractive, fascinating, and profitable kind, 

 teaching the old many facts far from familiar to them, and leading the young into fields which 

 the study of a lifetime cannot exhaust. It reads as though it might have been originally written 

 in English, and it certainly contains more information upon the subject of which it treats than 

 any other single volume extant ; and this is imparted in so agreeable a manner that the work 

 deserves to be called popular in the best sense of the term. It is impossible to award too high 

 praise to the engravings which illustrate and ornament the work. They are executed in the best 

 style." N. T. Times. 



13. J. <Sc Co. liave lately published, 



The World Before the Deluge. By Louis Figuier. A New Edition, 



Illustrated. 1 vol., 8vo. Cloth, $6 ; half calf, $8.50. 

 The Harmonies of Nature. By Dr. G. Hartwig. Illustrated. 1 vol. 



8vo. Cloth, $7.50. 

 The Harvest of the Sea. By James G. Bertram. Illustrated. 1 vol., 8vo 



Cloth, $7.50. 



