408 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
AyotHer Handbook of Plant Collecting comes to us from Messrs. 
J. & R. Parlane, Paisley. It is the work of Mr. J. M. B. Taylor 
Curator of the Free Museum, Paisley, and is published af, the 
only visible by the aid of the microscope, to the most gigantic 
ee of the tropics; while alike takes notice of the 
on Wi by the roadside. Association with plants is very 
close. These lines, common in use in the fourteenth century in the 
struggle between rich and poor, remind us of its antiquity, viz. :— 
‘When Adam delved and ni span, 
Who was then a gentlem 
This association with plants began to Eke the science we call 
Botany.” The book is further disfigured by the crudest illustra- 
tions which w & lave ever seen: it is inadequate to say that their 
absence ould improve the book. Nevertheless the little _ work 
friend with a blue pencil, it will be greatly improved in a second 
edition. 
We have received the first pari of saint seems likely to be an 
important contribution to French botan ‘‘ Flore descriptive et 
illustrée de la France de la Corse et des peter ae limairopes,” by 
the Abbé H. Coste. Irom the prefatory remarks on the cover, we 
gather that it is intended to replace Grenier and Godron’s admirable 
work, which has long been out of print, and is moreover half a 
nine salt pelea three volumes, which will not be sold separately, 
and can y be ‘obs ained by subscribers; it will cost sixty francs 
when aN sa but until the completion of Be first volume may be 
had for forty-five francs paid in advance to ¢ e publisher, M. Paul 
ere 8, Rue Corneille, Paris. The fac dregs of the work 
n three years is guaran nteed. We reserve a more detailed notice 
antl the Pos has farther advanced; meanwhile we warmly com- 
mend it to the notice of British botanists. We note, however, that 
the author claims to belong to ‘ l’école linnéenne et classique, et en 
conséquence n’admet que les espéces de premier ordre urvues des 
espe 
das et les principales variéiés sont cependant mentionnées, mais 
n figurées.” The absence of bibliographical citations and of 
synonymy is to be regretted, but the inclusion of these would be 
foreign to the plan of the book. 
