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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, 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, 

 JAMBS SOWEBBY, F.L.S., J. DB. 0. SOWEBBY, F.L.S., and J. W. 

 SALTEB, AJJ.S. In Eleven Volumes, super-royal 8vo. ; or in 83 Parts 

 5s. each. 



Under the editorship of T. BoeweirSyme, F.L.S., assisted by Mrs. Lankester, ' Sowerby's 

 English Botany,' when finished, will 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 with the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread 

 on with careless step. We cannot dwell upon imany of the individuals grouped in the 

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

 the work Is pledged to contain a figure of every wild newer indigenous to these islet," 

 Timct. 



" 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 Btudy of our native 

 plants, with all their fascinating associations, held dear." Atherueum. 



" A clear, bold, distinctive type enables the reader to take in at a glance the arrangemen 

 and diyisioni of every page. And Mrs. Lankester has added to the technical description by 

 the editor an extremely 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 ehort 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 most accurate and beautiful, and the entire work cannot be 

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



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Vol. L (Seven Parts) 

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 HI. (Eight Parts) 

 IV. (Nine Parts) 

 V. (Eight Parts) 

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 IX. (Seven Parts) 

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 XI. (Six Parte) 



Or, the Eleven Volumes, 22Z. 8s. in cloth ; 24Z. 12s. in half-morocco ; and 

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Volume J//., by Prof. BOSWELI, containing ferns and other cryptogarr.ous 

 plants, with an Index to the whole work, is now being issued. Part L with 

 22 coloured plates is now ready, price 5s. 



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