114 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
life is influenced by juxtaposition with other plants (a principle 
unheard of—unthinkable we should almost conclude—in the early 
days of strictly systematic botany).” This, I maintain, is unfair 
to old-fashioned collectors, as a body ; t use their eyes and 
their wits to very good i re and the suggested rivalry has 
act 
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figures may be superfluous. “How to collect Roses” (pl. ii., fig. a) 
reproduces a sheet without any barren stem; the “ Vegetation of a 
Besides the Appendix and Bibliography (from which the 
the chief record of British Field Botany for more than half a 
ii. Encouragement of the study 
of botany; iv. Study of the life-history of a plant; v. An outline 
the author seems to have preferred using two long words instead of 
one short word; and the language occasionally becomes so involved 
as to make the sense confused. Thus it is unhandy as a textbook 
ere are some examples. The 
runs :—* The necessity for encouraging 
pst ora bess areiarte a 
