FLOWERS OF THE FIELD 195 
this arrangement the flower is considered as one kind of pad A 
special chapter is devoted to flowers and insects. Next comes a 
review of the individeal plat in all of its relations, ers by a 
short account of the factors in the struggle for existence, There is 
also a sketch of the physiology of nutrition. The remaining five 
chapters deal with plant-societies, determined chiefly by the water- 
factor, under the titles Hydrophyte, Xerophyte, Mesophyte, and 
Halophyte societies. The professional botanist may perhaps com- 
plain of a certain want of continuity, but he cannot fail to anne 
“ see manner in which Professor Coulter has put before u 
mall a compass, what he is pleased to term the oaliapee 
eee at the meaning of the inchoate facts of ecology. 
B. BR. 
Flowers of i Field. By the late Rey. ©. A. Jouns, B.A., F.L.S. 
Ades Bie fa ke Entirely rewritten and revised by 
G8. Bou uLeGER, F.L.8., F.G.8. London: 8.P.C0.K. “1899” 
(1900. vo, cloth, pp. lii, 926. Price 7s. 6d. 
—the present writer among the number—owe their first 
it was a = st pu ublished in n anus the support of the 
present generation of a. botanists a new and so pa 
form. Tho ose who used the old book will reniembe the i 
t e 
i Whi these and more general and popular works, Mr. aotnes 
vo 
r. Boulger has included short descriptions of every species 
known to inhabit Britain, abe ng Macapes such groups as the 
remai 
as ne which feature opinions will no doubt differ. Considerations 
e 
in Rie ie The Satie of ¢ etey for tha t names gives them 
what unscientific appearance. We may remark in passing 
that ‘the book will have to be consulted by nomenclaturists, as it is 
possible that certain names—Juncoides erectum, for example—are 
here published for the first time: it is therefore important to 
remember oe though dated 1899, it did not appear un until 1900. 
e improvements introduced are the inclusion of all 
references in one index, and the reduction of the space formerly 
