USEFUL WORKS 



PUBLISHED BY 



ROBERT HASDWICKE, 



192, PICCADILLY, W. 



In Monthly parts, at 5s. from Jan. 1, 1863. Each part contains 24 

 ^a^w of plates and an average of 24 pages of letterpress. To be 

 completed in about 66 parts. 



Sowerby's English Botany ; 



Containing a description and drawing of every British Plant ; Life 

 Size, full-coloured by hand, with Illustrations of the Organs. Edited 

 and brought up to the present standard of scientific knowledge by 

 T.Boswell Syme, F.L. S.,&c, Lecturer on Botany atCharing-Cross 

 and Westminster Hospitals. With Popular Descriptions of the Uses, 

 History, and Traditions of each Plant, by Mrs. Lankester, author 

 of "Wild Flowers worth Notice," "The British Ferns," &c. The 

 Figures by James Sowerby, F.L.S., J. de C. Sowerby, F.L.S., 

 J. E. Sowerby and J. W. Salter, A.L.S. 



The Distinctive Characteristics of this edition are. 



1. A life-size drawing of every British plant, arranged according to 

 the natural system of De Candolle. 



2. Where necessary, the plates are accompanied by illustrations of the 

 structure of the various organs of the plant, especially those structures 

 discovered within the last few years by the use of the microscope. 



3. All the illustrations are full-coloured, instead of half-coloured, as 

 in the second edition ; and the utmost care is taken to adhere as closely 

 as possible to nature. 



Specimens may be had gratis on application. 



A few Copies of the Second Edition, 



12 Vols, can still be had. 



£. 



s. I, 



Vol. 1 to 7 Flowering Plants 10 10 



Vol. 8 to 12 Cryptogamia 9 10 



The Complete Set 15 



