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Wandtafeln fiir den Naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht, mit specieller 
Beriicksichtigung der Pr3 dwirthschaft. III. serie. Pflansenkunde 
L. Kyy. Berlin, 1874. 
Il 
starch granules, raphides and plant-crystals, the conjugation of 
Spirogyra, the laticiferous ahah unicellullar hairs and glands, the 
bro-vascular bundlés of mono- and dicotyiedons and the development 
of the embryoin Brassica Napus. They go into more detail than is cus- 
tomary i in such aids to class-instruction, and, indeed if one felt inclined 
to criticise these excellent a eed one might say they are too good. 
_ They well repay close examination, and much of the information 
y contain would be necessarily lost on the walls of a eS ae 
The London Catalogue of British Plants, Seventh Edition. London : 
_R. Hardwicke, 1874. (Pp. 32.) 
This list, the first edition of which appeared in 1844, is of the 
greatest utility to British ag sts. Not a few local Floras have been 
arran, i 
nginal series of numbers.”” We pointed out the desirability of some 
such Course in the review referred to; and its adoption renders the 
od by Dr. . Boswell-Syme 
Poealish Botany, ” 125 of which are ‘elicised, The Students’ 
@ has been followed in some cases in preference to English 
ay, as in the restoration of the genera Tanacetum and Matricaria. 
Misa violaceum is altogether omitted, no doubt through inadver- 
— I work is very limited, it may be useful to mention that the ithe 
D. presented it to the Hethashin oS at Kew and to that of the 
Partment of Botany of the British Mus J.B 
