154- Watson's New Botanist's Guide. 



Art. IV. Remarks on the Geographical Distribution of British 

 Plants ; chiefly in Connection with Latitude, Elevation, and Cli- 

 mate. By Hewett Cottrell Watson. 12mo. London, 1835. 



The author has taken very great pains to render this work as 

 perfect as the present state of our knowledge on the subject of 

 which it treats permits ; and he has succeeded in producing a 

 book which will be read with instruction and delight by every 

 one fond of the study of plants, and more especially by the Bri- 

 tish gardener. Its use to the practical gardener may not ap- 

 pear obvious at first sight; but it will enable him to judge of the 

 comparative difference of climate in different parts of the island, 

 and to generalise on the important subjects of climate, weather, 

 and soil. To the gardener, and to every botanical reader, it 

 will add greatly to the local interest of particular places ; for it 

 is hardly possible to live in any part of Britain that is not cited 

 in this volume, or in the New Botanist's Guide (to be next no- 

 ticed), as the station of some plant. 



Art. V. The Netv Botanist's Guide to the Localities of the Rarer 

 Plants of Britain ; on the Plan of Turner and Dillixiyn's Botanist's 

 Guide. By Hewett Cottrell Watson. Vol. I. England and Wales. 

 12mo. London, 1835. 



We cannot better recommend this work than by the following 

 short extracts from the Introduction, and from the Prefatory 

 Notice. : — 



" In publishing the following woi'k, two subjects are imme- 

 diately in view : first, to exhibit the ascertained distribution of 

 our less common indigenous Plants throughout Britain; and, 

 secondly, to form a Guide-Book for botanical tourists. The 

 well-known Botanisfs Guide of Turner and Dillwyn may be said 

 to form the model of the present one, omitting the cryptogamic 

 plants. But the lapse of 30 years since the publication of that 

 work has greatly increased our knowledge on the subject; while 

 the manuscript communications of several friends, and personal 

 researches, enable me to add considerably to it, independently of 

 the information contained in various local floras and catalogues of 

 more recent date." (Introd., p. 1.) 



" This volume includes all the counties of England and Wales, 

 and will form a complete work in itself, if the publication of the 

 second volume should be prevented by any unforeseen circum- 

 stance. The counties of Scotland, with the adjoining isles from 

 Man to Shetland, are intended to be comprised in the second 

 volume, which will be ready in 1836. (Not., p. v.) 



