36 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
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attempt at extreme brevity results in ladeqaete explanation : “The leaves 
of Iris are equitant, that is, straddling over a other” (p. 37) ”No o pupil o 
any age, unless familiar with the arrangement of the bases of the leaves ds 
would get the sli ightest idea of what is meant bye uitant leaves. Under 
les (p. 37), the student is told, “in Galiwm they are interpetiolar and as Tere 
as the leaves and exactly resemble them, so that the leaves are said to be 
whorled; but in reality they are opposite, the two intermediate leaves on each 
true o -lea “r 
side being stipules.” If f the 4 and 8-leaved as it is a very 
unnecessary fact for the student, and it is especially out of place in an “organo- 
graphy,” which almost ignores homology. The Hactaisiotes definit tion of a 
pistil as consisting of three parts, cn el sah yan Benger is at two pages 
later (p. 53) by the words See rning the pin e is, therefore, 
the pistil.” Nor does the rs remise ory the “ “therefore” ex 
apparent contradiction Wout e two ideas y a “pst be slight}y con- 
fusing to a novic is th e 5 fsthesehene astounding CW 
the flowers are evidently ae to favor celt-fertilization a Pinas 
fertilization they are said to be cleisto e feligwind fro 
d 95 very ae tter : “Certain Hee cells, oe on s of cells, become 
Pr dified into tubes or ducts, and form the atringlilke masses, or form fibers in © 
pact stems of the higher plants. These are ws fibro-vascular Nita bein < 
D iaieeteationg of the book are “copious” —too copious, such as they are. 
The Sate are p on gravings from the author’s en np awings, some 
from ae (we suppose), some copied from various sou and rom 
Vick’s ca talogue es ithe cases the source of the Shnind “illustration is ac- 
se ged in many cases, perpen ge aed when er aah altered, it is not. few 
nstances is the name of the ant, from which the illustratio ae taken, given. 
Aside frac their zeomplet ied ry, artistic finish, some of the the contain — 
Goring srrurs he leavesof — 
umbel, shows in r is there age A ts oy ‘the text to correct 
on, : : 
Ula. 1 
ave (not named) as the iid flower ; at least it is e one to which rei- 
erence is made when first describing flower parts, Fig. 182, of Navieula viridis, — 
has the striations projecting one-third of their length beyo ond the edge of the 
valve. Fig. 202, of the stomata “are peg tn spaces of "Wie leaf of Pine, is _ 
eyond description. Fig 212, a section of a stoma of the potato leaf, pe the 
guard cells with walls as thick as sclere be eer and so on. Only the most 
a aring errors have ells mentioned, and those named are confined to the first yor 
d pa. 
terms aid the Souunlites method in expression of the Greek words in Eng- 
lish letters—as an example of the latter notice “ , under ; 
Pp p. 4 e adoption of the English system of measures and tem- 
gu ist 
peratures i is ‘made on the ta of unfamiliarity w with the metric. When and how 
—_ tye Ss oo familiar with the metric system if they are not forced to 
Oe Baal , the entire aeons oa ont index adds an inconvenience to the use 
of a book already unfit for u of its many mistakes; and as a general 
statement it will probably hold good th that Dr. Gray and Prof. Bessey would pre- 
fer to do their own. abridging. 
