Ba)ih*s Introduciioti to English Botany. 453 



young Persons with a taste for Botany, by presenting to 

 them a Birdseye View of the whole Vegetable Kingdom. 

 Small 8vo, 104 pages. London, 1833. 35. 6d. 



It strikes us that this little book can only be appreciated 

 by those who are already acquainted with rather many genera 

 and species of plants, particularly of exotic ones, and who 

 are unable, or have not an opportunity, to read the French 

 original. To such the interesting information supplied on 

 the numerous plants spoken of must be very welcome ; 

 and the book is very eligible for presenting to many an in- 

 telligent and aspiring young gardener, and to young ladies 

 and gentlemen who have already acquired the power of dis- 

 tinguishing and naming many plants. In the notes are sup- 

 plied the technical or distinctive characters of the orders and 

 genera spoken of; but we see in this provision but little 

 utility, as we fear no one, or but extremely few, will read the 

 writer's book, who has to acquire a knowledge of these cha- 

 racters as he or she proceeds, ere he or she can attain to the 

 enjoyment and full understanding of the text itself. 



One of the titles of the book is Botanical Geography, and 

 it, in short, notices the more striking of the families planted 

 over our planet, and the principal of the attributes, charac- 

 teristics, and properties of each. 



Banks, George, F. L. S. : An Introduction to the Study of 

 English Botany ; with a Glossary of Terms. Illustrated 

 by 37 plates. The second edition. 8vo, 94 pages. London, 

 1832. 9s. 



The thirty-seven plates are admirably executed, and faith- 

 fully portray the plants, and parts of plants, which they are 

 meant to represent. As each plate bears several figures, the 

 whole taken together illustrate many of the botanic terms, 

 while the text enumerates, explains, and refers to plants by 

 name for examples of the remainder. It is a clear catalogue 

 of the terms used in Linnaean botany, and will be an elegant 

 and useful manual to ladies and others commencing the study 

 of botany by this system, and who dare not commence the 

 science by the natural system. Towards the knowledge of 

 botany by the natural system, this work also subserves, as far 

 as it goes, which is a good way ; but, in the natural system, 

 there are many terms in use which in this volume are not ex- 

 plained. A finely engraved portrait of Linnaeus, with the 

 elegant Linnae'a borealis insculptured beneath it, is prefixed 

 to the volume, which is dedicated to Dr. Hooker. 



Main, James, A.L.S. (Author of " The Villa and Cottage 

 Florist's Directory," and Editor of the last Editions of 



