pay THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
has — out, the — resembles V. Riviniana; so the parentage 
ma haps be V. hirta x Riviniana, rather than ~ A e I 
feel practically no a as to the participation of V. hirta 
Epwarp 8. MArsH 
REVIEWS. 
The —— Plant-Book : or Figures of Plants selected from 
bals of the Sixteenth Century, and exhibiting the 
peti te of Plant-drawing found in those Rare Works, 
whether executed in Wood-cuts or in Copper-plate Engravings. 
Arranged for the use of the Decorator, with supplementary 
illustrations and some remarks on the use of ahi" form in 
Design. By Ricuarp G. Harton, i. A.R.C.A. (London). 
4to, el. pp. my 539. London: Chapman & Hall. 1909. 
Price 25s. net 
Ir a man only jive long enough he would doubtless find that 
all his ideas which were worth anything would in time be carried 
u 
it another way, it must be within the experience of everyone to 
find that, while he has been thinking how best to carry out some 
pet scheme, some one has been before him and put it into execu- 
tion. Of this the very handsome volume which forms the subject 
of this notice is an example. For many years the present writer 
been working and acting, and the ‘eult Partie | in every way 
admirable collection 
The work which it had been my ambition to make more widely 
known was the Historia Stirpium of Leonhart Fuchs, a folio 
volume published at Basle in 1542, of which Mr. Hatton has 
made abundant use in the book under consideration. It is not a 
i its Germa 
quite reasonable prices—I think I gave two guineas for mine 
a few years ago; but it is certainly not as well-known as its 
en deserve, for when I used to show visitors to the Depart- 
ent of Botany some of our more aT la and beautiful 
caleaces, I never failed to dwell specially upon this work of 
Fuchs and to find that most folk w re unacquainted with it. 
William Morris drew much of his seaaeeessci from Fuchs, whose 
book he regarded as the best of all the herbals for refinement of 
drawing; Mr. Hatton ae out that the figures, which he 
rightly terms magnificent, “are in outline only, for Fuchsius 
would not permit any shading lest the form should be confused, 
and the lines are cut to an unusual narrowness.” If it would not 
seem ungrateful for what has been admirably done, one would 
_ Tegret that in Mr. Hatton’s book the figures, which in the original 
