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Scientific Morfes : inclufcin^ Botany, IRatural 

 flMstors, &c. 



E. BONAVIA, M.D.) Brigade-Surgeon, Indian Medical Service. 

 The Cultivated Oranges and Lemons of India and Ceylon. Demy 

 8vo, with oblong Atlas Volume of Plates, 2 vols. 305. 



R. BRAITHWAITE, M.D., F.L.S., &c. 



The Sphagnaceae, or Peat Mosses of Europe and North America. 

 Illustrated with 29 Plates, coloured by hand. Imp. 8vo, 253. 



"AH muscologists will be delighted to hail the appearance of this important work. 

 . . . Never before has our native moss-flora been so carefully figured and described, 

 and that by an acknowledged authority on the subject." Science Gossip. 



" Mosses, perhaps, receive about as little attention from botauists as any class of 

 plants, and considering how admirably mosses lend themselves to the collector's 

 purposes, this is very remarkable. Something may be due to the minuteness of the 

 size of many of the species, and something perhaps to the difficulties inherent in the 

 systematic treatment of these plants ; but we fancy the chief cause of comparative 

 neglect wfth which they are treated is to be sought in the want of a good illustrated 

 English treatise upon them. In the work which is now before us, Dr Braithwaite aims 

 at placing the British mosses on the same vantage-ground as the more favoured classes 

 of the vegetable kingdom ; and judging from the sample lately issued, he will succeed 

 in his endeavours." Popular Science Review. 



B. CARRINGTON, M.D., F.R.S. 

 British Hepaticae. Containing Descriptions and Figures of the Native 



Species of Jungermannia, Marchantia, and Anthoceros. Imp. 8vo, 



sewed, Parts i to 4, plain plates, 2s. 6d. each ; coloured plates, 



35. 6d. each. 



M. C. COOKE, M.A., LL.D. 

 The British Fungi : A Plain and Easy Account of. With Coloured 



Plates of 40 Species. Fifth Edition, Revised. Crown 8vo, 6s. 

 " Mr Cooke writes for those whose education and means are limited, and with pre- 

 eminent success. It is really a pleasure to read the manuals which he has published, 

 for they are up to the mark, and so complete as to leave hardly anything to be desired. 

 The new work on the fungi appears to be equally valuable with those which he has 

 already printed. It contains descriptions of the esculent fungi, the manner in which 

 they are prepared for the table, how to discriminate the nutritious from the poisonous 

 species, details of the principles of their scientific classification, and a tabular arrange- 

 ment of orders and genera." 



Handbook of British Hepaticae. Containing Descriptions and Figures 

 of the Indigenous Species of Marchantia, Tungermannia, Riccia, and 

 Anthoceros, Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 6s. 



" It is very creditable to Mr Cooko that the drawings in his book are all sketches 

 from nature made by his own pencil. This shows work, and is more respectable than 

 the too common practice of copying engravings from the authorities in the particular 

 branch of science. This little book is valuable, because in some respects it is certainly 

 a good guide-book to a number of edible fungi unknown to the public." Popular 

 Science Revie 



"Probably no group in the ts ora as receve so e aenon as e 

 Hepaticw. Dr M. O. Cooke has now filled up the gap by producing a ' Handbook of 

 the British Hepatic^,' containing full descriptions of all the species, about two hundred 

 in number, known to inhabit the British Islands." Nature. 



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