184 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
thoughtiul persons who desire instruction with their pleasure, and is of special 
value to all who contemplate assuming the managementof a yacht, or cruising 
on the bays nam 
e botanist will innt inthe ste to find items of poles interest, 
from an author so em science. But the book is a reco a season 
of recreation in a very complete sense of word, and all odor of tha ah Pp 
was shaken off before Pree 05 Bs ar eless, there are a few excellent botani- 
cal 5 aad ge ial value of the work to the none ye to 
show a vacation with the most profit. 
ndeed, 
readers will ay t y the boo ee down without a lnsiog to try yachting, or, ‘if Tiving 
1 canoeing 
The Essentials of Bein my. By Charles E. Bessey, M. Sc. Ph. D. Henry Holt & 
Co., New bide 1884. 12mo., 292 pp. [llust. 
is is one of the Briefer Course text-books, and is hewnyey om an 0 ae 
— of wre! olathe Tar arger Botany. The chan anges, however, are 80 and 
so i that it has the interest of a new 
: ng the ‘work more popular with both 
teachers and e is the simplification of the language by using fewer tech- 
llenctieses mee equivalents ot possible. Thus 
mentioned the most tbs grea: . Among the other rong the 
phyta, ms oll with or Zygospores and 
arposporee, which makes the terms uniform with Protophyta, Bryophyta, et. 
work into this, the. fas! or has given a readab i statement o 
thes which lie at the basis of the fags in fact the “essential of sean? 
Mg mi feature of the la k was the directions for l ad 
work, This muc etendaa under the title of suerte studies, @ 
is wi th laced er every subject in the ee including the ph ysiologtet ae 
the minor changes are the e oyme ent of thicker leads, and spat 
1 t. 
, ro text ever gave better prom a ~ meeting a —_ = want than 
this. It will be welcomed wherever ¢ the aim is to learn ~! fro ure herself, 
and to make the book serve only as a 
