154 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
ublished in 1868, has no doubt greatly contributed Clearly written, 
illustrated far more accurately and — sly than any previous book 
of its class, and published at a very cheap price, its circulation ex- 
tended much beyond France, and in this country the work was foun 
families, which is that of A. de Jussieu, still used in the jeans at 
the “age des Plantes, but little familiar to English studen 
nglish translation the natural orders have ie re- 
general view of the whole subject, Bentham and Hooker's ‘‘ Genera 
Plantarum,” so far as that important work has yetreached. The editor 
has 1n en inserted i in their proper position twenty-four orders 
omitted in the original work, and has added under the larger orders out- 
lines of the latest tclasifcation of the genera under tribes and sub-tribes. 
The b rts. The firs a 
sists of little more than 100 pages, into which it has been essayed to 
compress a succinct but ¢ paeieed introduction to Botany. It 
is preceded by a bald foteetaekier chapter. The book would have 
lost little of value if this first part had been altogether omitted ; it is 
means on an equality with the body of the work, and there are 
told by the editor, were largely prepared from ‘‘ M. Decaisne’s unique 
or of analytical drawings, the fruits of his life-long botanical 
labour The account of Phyllotaxy is good and well iliustrated. 
One is pie to see that the editor did not correct the misleading use 
of the terms right- and left- handed rotation as applied to twining 
organs, which are here defined to mean exactly the reverse of their 
i HBA in all English text-books. 
The second part, the body of the work, ioc ue of Illustrations 
and Teeariptioné of the Natural Families. The o ginal work is 
closely followed, the only alteration being as sais. suaoedi in sequence 
and the intercalation of some additions by amt editor. The mode in 
which each family is treated is very simple—a short diagnosis ¢ 
sisting of its most essential characters, followed by a full "awositpibion 
illustrated by a profusion of figures of singular excellence both from 
a botanist’s and an artist’s point of view, a selection of illustrative 
' genera (to which the editor has often largely addi. t ee. a sketch of 
the affinities, secermptical ae and prope f the order. 
‘ing it 
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to the older treatise several advantages pu its more sea oe e 
copious citation of other authors, a a very us feature in Lindley’s 
work, is almost ahésintaly: Wanting in the present volume, and the 
