188 NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
simple, deviates so greatly from the common, or to make him first 
acquainted with thos e which show the usual type of floral architecture, 
leaving the exception till he has a i the general pattern. Our 
l Pa s having been published at weekly intervals through the 
spring and summer, and the early spring flowers being taken first. 
cesis with the descriptive matter are very judicious indications 
of subjects of larger t. little more than hints, but still suffi- 
cient to stimulate in the er a desire to know more about be physio- 
cal processes as fertilization by insects and hybridization, geographical 
distribution, the permanence or instability of species, and other subjects 
which now so largely occupy the attention of botanists. In the way in 
which these points are handl ee the 
ed, though so slightly, it is easy tO $ 
author's superiority over the bulk of 4 nie lily of introductory text 
ks, who are scarce ime in knowledge of their su 
Scarcely-ever up to the ti 
ject. The last three chapters on classification and plant life are excellent 
