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oriijinally appeared in the ' Journal of the Liiinean Society ' fioni 

 1891 to 1897, with the cuts and the coloured plates belonging to 

 them ; there are also added a few cuts from the authors ' Seedlings,' 

 half a dozen from Bentham's ' Illustrated British Flora,' and some 

 new half-tone blocks. 



The scope of the work will be best understood by the titles of the 

 contents of the niue chapters into which the book is divided : — 

 On Ends ; Ou Stipules ; On the Development of Leaves and Stipules ; 

 On the Protection of Buds ; Ou the Structure of Buds ; On the 

 Forms of Stipules ; On the Subsidiary Uses of Stipules ; On the 

 Nature of Stipules ; Summary. 



It is somewhat difficult to guess the class of readers to whom 

 this volume is addressed. While the style is simple and the 

 various topics discussed without undue technicality, demands are 

 made upon the reader's knowledge which are hardly likely to be 

 met in the ease of the average person. On the other hand, the 

 nature of much of the information given may without offence be 

 styled elementary ; the subjects are introduced as they occur, 

 without a strict sequence in any seieutitic order. The references 

 and bibliograph}^ point to the conclusion that students are appealed 

 to, and we must therefore conclude that both classes are addressed 

 and that the volume is a compromise in that direction. 



The forms of both buds and stipules are so various that it would 

 be difficult to write on tliem without bringing together a large 

 amount of interesting matter. It is so here, and the volume may 

 be recommended to all who can take pleasure in examining the 

 objects named on attention being drawn to the protean shapes in 

 which the said organs occur. To enhance the interest of a stroll in 

 the country or garden is well worth doing, and on that ground the 

 present work may be commended. 



A w^ord may be added on the subject of references, which are 

 sometimes given in the text, at others in footnotes, while a third 

 method is also emploj'ed, that of sending the reader to the " Biblio- 

 graphy," consisting of rather more than two pages of titles of books 

 and papers bearing on the topics handled. Unfortunately, as we 

 think, the plan adopted is the singularly awkward one of setting 

 out the entries in the order of citation in the text, as though the 

 author drew up his list as he wrote his manuscript and printed it 

 in the same sequence. To render the bibliogra])hy really useful it 

 should have been drawn up either in the order of time — that is, 

 chronologically — which would have show^n the order of research 

 from the first author mentioned to the last, or alphabetically by 

 writers' names, which would have shown the relative sum of obser- 

 vation by each author named. By the j^resent plan we have a series 

 of entries without any obvious plan, compelling the reading of the 

 whole in order to get at the items. 



