102 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ April, 
a good and finely illustrated discussion of the cell. After this, the bad eo 
e “ histology ” is taken up, though why the stady of cells would not come un- 
der Then 
Pe head it would be Dae to guess. o physiology proper 10 | pages 
a ! ere can surely be no excu reducing this great subject in 
a secant text-bo art V, with 40 pages, is entitled “The er Plants,” 
under which title are grou both crypto d phanerogam 
bdivisions, chief attention being given to the for Wha cologists will 
say to the following g we s correlatives is not hard to guess: protophytes, 
fungi, alge, liverworts, mosses, ferns, aii bg ag rhizocarps, clubmosses, coni- 
fers, monocotyledons, and dicotyledons. It is said that except in the pro- 
tophytes spores are “the product of serial conj ion,” and are 
“ destit f ryo having plumule, radicle, and cotyledons,” thoug 
hat their bye does have is not s o then, er the comprehensive 
title, “Systematic Botany,” we have grouped on njy the trap a while un- 
der the rest e restricted es “The Lower Plant he have all plants grouped. 
ow 
s is due to the teanal nis we have no means of judging. 
Our fra ak 0 opi inio n, hess, with respect to the nary is that it lacks poems: 
proporti ange me nt, and proper titles; while it does have a undance 
of capital ilasteatiobs and much most ex es gar eae cana in an 
interesting ite Jhile, therefore, it can er be considered a good “ Text- 
ook of General Botany,” a treatise on eapiley it will find a place on our 
shelves and “ rie uently fret files d. 
sae ge on the Farm. By Maxwell T. seo M. D., F. R.8. 16°, pp. iv, 
New York: Orange Judd Company. 1885. 
sm s little book is a step in the right tat It is high time that our 
ealivgtine should be informed of some of the most im sortie facts of physi- 
ological botany. They may be well dntovenes about the structure of plants, for 
e hav i i 
says 
begs with new tools and new Rees se to. ena e ena ae ntilise ‘the resources 
of n i j i 
ad better not be done at all. Dr. Masters has been able to dra upon a gre 
fund of experiments ie aloha by the famous Si eaey station ‘i kanes) 
A point is made in trying to get o understand how import- 
ant to his git work is =~ of the microscopist and chentish as the “ life-history 
of a plan u essence, the life- ese pal) - ig and of its covering the 
Salt: walk ; a pthing which ths “practica ” finds it difficult to realize. The 
wi 
chlorophyll, p. 28. Most of t ne definitions are very clear, when one considers 
that sy are made for those with no basis of ieckiueal knowledge Bate ception 
might be taken to the following, i oa p. 49, where the exugen s stem is 
said to have woody bundles made of “ wood-cells” and 1« bast ce}ls,” eet on the 
