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SOWERBY'S ENGLISH BOTANY: 



Containing a Description and Life-size coloured Drawing of every 

 British Plant. Edited and brought up to the Present Standard of 

 Scientific Knowledge by T. BOSWELL (formerly SYME), LL.D. F.L.S., 

 &c. With Popular Descriptions of the Uses, History, and Traditions 

 of each Plant, by Mrs. LANKESTEB, Author of " Wild Flowers Worth 

 Notice," " The British Ferns," &c. The Figures by J. E. SOWEBBY, 

 JAMES SOWEBBY, F.L.S., J. DK C. SOWEBBY, F.L.S., and J. W. 

 SALTEB, A.L.S. In Eleven Volumes, super-royal 8vo. 



" Under the editorship of T. Boswell Oyiue, F.L.S., assisted by Mrs. Lankester, ' Sowerby'a 

 English Botany,' when finished, wili be exhaustive of the subject, and worthy of the 

 branch of science it illustrates. , , . In turning over the charmingly executed hand- 

 coloured plates of British plants which encumber these volumes with riches, the reader 

 cannot help being struck v. ith the boauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread 

 on with careless step. We cannot dwell upon many of the individuals grouped hi the 

 splendid bouquet of flowers presented ia these pages, and it will be sufficient to state that 

 the work is pledged to contain a figure of every wild flower indigenous to these isles." 

 Times. 



" Will be the most complete Flora of Great Britain ever brought out. This great work 

 will find a place wherever botanical science is cultivated, and the study of our native 

 lante, with all their fascinating -iseociations, held dear." Athtnwurr*. 



" A clear, bold, distinctive type enables the reader to Uike in at a glance the arrangement 

 and divisions of every page. And Mrs. Lankester has added to the technical deseriptiou by 

 the editor an extrtmely Interesting popular sketch, which follows in smaller type. The 

 English, French, and German popular names are given, and, wherever that delicate and 

 difficult step is at all practicable, their derivation also. Medical properties, superstitions, 

 and fancies, and poetic tributes and illusions, follow. In short there is nothing more left to 

 be desired." Guardian. 



" Without question, this Is the standard work on Botany, and indispensable to every 

 botanist. . . . The plates are mo;-t accurate and beautiful, and the entire work cannot be 

 too strongly recommended to all who are interested in botany." Illustrated News. 



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A Supplementary Volume, containing ferns and other cryptogami, in preparation 

 by Professor BOSWELL (formerly SYME). 



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