4 Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly, w. 



Price 2s. Gd. ; the came in Case without Description, price 2s. 



Twelve British Ferns ; 



Being dried natural Specimens; Named, Arranged, and Described. 

 By Joachim Otte, F.G.S. 



Fcap. Svo. cloth, coloured ly hand. 4s. ; plain, 2s. tjd. 



Wild Flowers worth Notice. 



A selection from the British Flora of some of our native plants which 

 are most attractive for their Beauty, Uses, or Associations. By 

 Mrs. Lankester. Illustrated by J. E. Sowerby. 



" Not a botanical treatise, but a practical minister to a growing taste, the parent 

 of new pleasures and improved habits ; an intelligent companion of healthful strolls 

 through sylvan glades." — Morning Post. 



"We can assure our readers that Mrs. Lankester's accounts of her favourite 

 plants are well worth their best, attention, and her little bits of folk lore and general 

 information are introduced with what we should consider great artistic skill, but that 

 she writes so easily and naturally, that no deliberate effort seems to have been made. 

 We should say especially that any one who wishes to thoroughly enjoy the flowers of 

 their neighbourhood wil! do well to purchase ' Wild Flowers worth Notice.' It is a 

 little bock that teaches a great deal, and in so pleasant a way, that to be wearied is 

 impossible." — Era. 



" We heartily recommend this exceedingly pretty little volume to the large class 

 who delight in flowers, whether in the field or in the garden, but who, deterred by its 

 innumerable ' words of learnod length and thundering sound,' decline to enter on 

 the study of botany as a science. They will find nearly one hundred wild flowers, 

 such as they meet with in any walk, so accurately represented in colours by Mr. 

 Sowerby, that the recognition will be a pleasure instead of a difficulty, and so agree- 

 ably described by the authoress, that a new pleasure is imparted to even such well- 

 known plants as buttercups and daisies." — Gentleman's Magazine. 



"We are so frequently asked by our country friends to recommend books on 

 Flowers and Ferns that shall be interesting without being too scientific, that we are 

 heartily glad to have the opportunity of so doing which the present elegant but cheap 

 little volume affords." — Practical Farmers' Chronicle. 



" It must not be supposed that Mrs. Lankester only deals with botanical facts ; 

 she has much legendary lore to relate, and many curious anecdotes to tell ; so that, 

 whether regarded as a handbook for a country walk, or as a volume for perusal in the 

 library, ' Wild Flowers worth Notice' is equally acceptable.'' — Shipping and Mercan- 

 tile Gazette. 



"We could while away a long summer day talking of the pleasant things sug- 

 gested by this little book. Although all intelligent persons cannot become botanists, 

 not to know the wild flowers of our country is to be ignorant both of our country and 

 ourselves. And this little book will, as a pocket companion during holiday rambles — 

 the descriptions and plates being both good— destroy this ignorance in reference to at 

 least a hundred plants. After mastering it, the student will be not a little astounded 

 at his own learning, when he surveys it in the systematic chapter of contents." — 

 Athenceum. 



" A graceful little volume. The reader may be surprised to find how many 

 flowers are properly considered wild, although they are constantly seen in cultivation. 

 iMrs. Lankester's list comprises about a hundred, from the domestic poppy to the 

 stately water-lily ; and each has its own portrait, carefully drawn and coloured from 

 life, by a most painstaking and affectionate artist. It is the very book for an autumn 

 ramble.'' — Illustrated Times. 



