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terms should b eet as much in the background as oreo for te pom 
mes 
older Forge as well, often gain the ae idea that the hard 
the chief part of the ac pa ie rst question must be, ‘ how w is it? with the 
cuca hiesiings ti nquiry, ‘ vantage is it tv the plant?” and the answer 
se be obtained directly on the plants themselves, bad “ht through the me 
ium o oks. 
of the books before us are designed for children, more particularly 
Sanday-school children, grees accordance with a too common custom, for it 
seems to us unwise, th ieuctenk are drawn parapet good and polite. 
Three small children ee chet governess talk in one book about Snsdl, and in 
e other rees, The author assures us in the preface that the “ Elmrid 
Series,” of which the first two volumes are entitled Birds and their Ways, = 
Flyers and 
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a few lines from the mid the first rolume by satigsh zs “Mlustration the sub- 
ject is the common blue ries or iris. The 
“You will notice that while the Logestier mye sondters sitesi the flower-stem bends this 
way and that, which is called flexwous ; quite round, and about two feet long. 
stem is also branching, and has s veral wire each with three thick ~— that curl _ 
he base 
capsule. 
“T wish there weren’t such hard things to aS vonuaiing about flowers,’’ said Clara. 
like the flowers so much that I want to know all about them, but I mix’ up all the it 
hings.’ 
“You need not, dear,’’ replied her governess, laughing; “all that you need to rem 
ber at present is that sepals belong to the cup or bottom 0: ‘a flower, and ete: to the yo 
or Na ies Ge “— le -olm is the oldest of the party, I shall expect most of the remembering 
to be done b: 
Malcolm ds a grimace, too, at the sepals and petals, but manfully said that he 
would do his beak: 
ully side with the apap and see no why these technical 
ahi should used, | as it seems unnecessary to introduce them ve to — 
card nly w an ob 
reality very few being needed by the child-botanist.- Fortunately for a it 
ones, the governess does not always feel it incumbent upon her to be so strictly 
“botanical,” and many pleasant pnt instructive observations upon the his tory 
0 . 
being none worth mentioning, unless one takes a t of a few like the] 
use of the words “stigma” and “ germ” in the quotat author is evi- 
dently upon familiar grou hat e to regret is that she ‘ot 
a nd. W 
ter acquainted with some of the features of botany referred to in the beginning 
of this notice, to which te 8 coder work by Dr. = eg already mentioned, may 
be cited as a stepp ae 
Guide to the r orders of Cryptogams and the commoner 
and more pik pro fame a Now England pee", ate a glossary. ry: By 
Fr ederick Leroy Sargent. Cambridge: Charles W. Sever, 1886. 12°. pp. 
= intra ace that he has attempted “to bring together 
thor tells us in the at he has attempted “to b 
in Sonate tion nero a een shape such information as would enable 
