1886,] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 285 
more elaboraie than the present work, and as we have e good manuals of the 
mosses and liverworts, it nee not cover more than the ene 
ofe 
students who are under the eye of a teacher. It will assist the student in Paton 
and usually to learn benpues or him to readily turn to some vated handbook 
and pursue his inquir 
Lectures on the Physiology of east By Sydney Howard Vines, M. A., D. Sc., F. 
R.S., Fel and Lecturer of Christ’s at Cambridge, and Reader i in 
Botany i in we a rsi rs 8°. pp.x.710. Cambridge:  Valewuie Press. 
1886. [New York: Macmillan is i a 
7 this rate volume—delightful tg dy ager and intellectually— 
‘Dr. Vines presents his lectures on a ology to a wider audience than can 
gather about his desk at Cambridge. The wack. of preparing these lectures for 
.p rad ; : 
ee of advanced students. arious delays prevented its appearance until 
e than six — after the publication of Dr. Go odie admirable work 
with whic mn wn an students are now familiar 
a srevigis knowledge of histology, Dr. Vines’ book is purely 
physiological It shows shebuapboat its pages the influence of Michael Foste 
0 whom the author acknowledges his indebtedness. Undoubtedly this influence 
has given us a work on vegetable physiology which is a worthy companion to 
ext-bo i iology. 
The broad topics of the book are discussed in sot pide order: Struc- 
ture and properties of the cell, absorption, movement of water, trans nspiration, 
food, metabolism, growth, irritability and reproduction er ‘first t glance it 
would seem that too much space had been ted to irritability, but when it is 
seen that under this head the author treats the relations of * ere nts to pete 
influences, such as light, heat and electricity, together with their 
response to internal stimuli, of whose nature we are ignoran ant, eer apparent dis- 
roportion vanishes. Warmly to be commended is the concluding portion of 
the last lecture on ok Ee in which is discussed the biological significance 
of this property in 
six eee on metabolism (we are glad to substitute this well- 
vital relations to the assimilative and metabolic page of the plant are kept 
constantly before the mind of the reader. he eature is more to be com- 
oe than this, for in no other work have hase relations been so clearly set 
“The es oe pages contain a fine summary of the reproductive pro- 
ing these from their lowest terms in the protophytes to their most.com- 
pile peated form in the ier ppanatin together with a condensed statement of the 
more prominent theories of reproduction. 
e excellence of such a work disarms criticism. One could wish, how- 
topics had been ened in Ae detail. A notable omission, 
of nuclear division. Bee 
to confu dis of “ = utili 
f ee een tone ig one with its only English contemporary, it will 
be seen as rom that Dr. Goodale is decidedly ri pict oe 
ing with greater or less fullness atau every topic of vegetable physiology, 
