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and a part of those in CrucifercB, are described;, both verbally 

 and pictorially. 



The Order is first given, then the genus, then the species, with 

 its English name, and the number of the figure in the present 

 work. Then there is a brief description of the plant, of its 

 habitat, size, duration, flowering period, with references to ' En- 

 glish Botany,^ both editions, to Hooker and Arnott's ' British 

 Elora,^ Babington's ' Manual,' and Lindley's ' Synopsis/ 



The following is a verbatim example of the arrangement and 

 substance of the work. This will give a clearer idea of the man- 

 ner in which the subject is handled than any description can : — 



"Order VI. CRUCIEEH.S. 



Genus 2. Crambe. 



C. maritlma. Sea Kale. Fig. 63. — Leaves roundisli, glaucous, waved, 



toothed, very smooth. Sandy coasts. Young shoots edible, 2 ft., peren. 



June. White (i). E. B. 1, 934. E. B. 2, 893. H. & Am. 43. Bab. 34. 



Lind. 34." 



There are ten of these descriptions on each page, and the whole 

 number of species will occupy, at the same space for each, 160 

 pages ; the descriptions of the orders, genera, key, glossary, in- 

 dex, etc., will probably fill up about as many more, or 320 pages 

 in all for the letter-press; the 80 plates will make 160 pages, 

 and the whole work maybe estimated at under or about 500 

 octavo pages. 



Each plate contains representations of twenty species; these 

 are arranged in lineal sequence in five rows, each row having 

 four figures. Thus there is a leaf or two pages of letter-press 

 and a plate, or a leaf of printed matter and a plate of figures 

 alternately. A more convenient arrangement could not be 

 adopted. 



The figures are, as the proprietor informs the public in his 

 prospectus, reductions of those in ^English Botany,' hence they 

 will have all the excellences of that well-known work. 



It is to be hoped that the author will not repeat the defects as 

 well as the excellences of ' English Botany,' or perpetuate its 

 blunders ; for example, that two figures will not be given of 

 Crepis tardxacifolia, while C. biennis is not noticed, except by 

 name (see ' Phytologist,' vol. ii. No. 34, p. 356, Feb. 1858). 



The reviewer's duty is most satisfactorily accomplished by 



