British I'loii-ering Plants. 715 



impressions, and coloured, of all the omitted plates, at Sd. 

 each. 



The plates employed will be those used for the first edition, 

 except ia some few instances of error, where new ones will be 

 substituted. In this second edition the plates are published 

 in the order of the Linnaean classes and orders, with the 

 names of the plants engraved on the plates : the impressions 

 are taken off on smaller paper, and have their colouring less 

 highly finished, than those in the first edition. 



The descriptions are published collectedly, and, like the 

 figures, in the order of the system of Linnaeus. They are 

 condensed from those in the first edition, and, the editor 

 trusts, without omitting any thing material ; while, from the 

 increased accuracy which the progress of botanical research 

 has effected, they will be occasionally improved. In the names 

 of the plants some few indispensable changes will be admitted. 

 To each genus is added the name of the natural order to 

 which it belongs, and a few general remarks on the habits 

 and properties of the species of the genus. These are useful 

 additions. 



Of the six numbers published we shall remark on the first 

 four, in explanation of the manner of publication, that Nos. 1, 

 2, and 3. contain five plates each, without any descriptive text; 

 but No. 4. contains three plates and a sheet of letterpress, in 

 which the 18 species figured in the four numbers are described, 

 and nine species besides, the figures of which are omitted. 

 In this manner, through the work, the letterpress is to be sup- 

 plied when the descriptions have become numerous enough 

 to fill a sheet. Mr. Sowerby, in his address, hopes " that the 

 many intelligent persons whose means are limited, may be in- 

 duced, by the low price at which this edition of English 

 Botany is published, to avail themselves of the opportunity of 

 acquainting themselves with the vegetable beauties disclosed 

 around them;" a hope in which we heartily concur. 



Anon.: British Flowering Plants, drawn from Nature, and 

 engraved under the direction of William Baxter, A. L. S. 

 F. H.S., 8cc., Curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden. In 

 8vo numbers, each containing four plates and descrip- 

 tive letterpress. With the plates coloured. Is. ; unco- 

 loured, Qd. 



Another very cheap work, devoted to the illustration of 

 British flowering plants. It is " to be confined to a single 

 specimen of each genus, which will be suflicient for all general 

 purposes." In the first number the species figured are Fri- 

 tillaria meleagris, Tidipa sylvestris, Geum rivale, and Fiola 



