336 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
p hor’s forecast for the future of plant-form should 
be of considerable interest to those engaged in studying the 
variations of ts. She thinks that an importa 
vidual flowers are very simple, with fewer parts than those of to- 
day, and that they will be combined in communities of highly 
specialised individuals in each flower head or cluster. At the end 
of book there are appendices on collecting and preparing 
specimens, a short list of literature, and a glossary of botanical 
erms. 
The author is to be congratulated on the interesting way in 
e plan the book is 
and some o 
impression. The book should find many readers among botanists 
in the North or Midlands of England, where fossil plants may be 
easily obtained from the collieries. HHT 
Plant Life in Alpine Switzerland : being an Account in Simple 
anguage of the Natural History of Alpine Plants. 
. A. Newetn Arser, M.A., F.L.S., University Demon- 
strator in Paleobotany, Cambridge. Illustrated by 48 Plates 
of Photographs from Nature and 30 Figures in the Text. 
8vo, cl., pp. xxiv, 335. Price 7s. 6d. net. Murray. 
botany something was required between the excellent but strictly 
technical “ Gremli”— the English translation of which, for some 
inscrutable reason, is and for some time has been out of print— 
p 
pictures which have from time to time been reviewed in these 
pages, the latest and one of the best of which we noticed as 
_ recently as July. 
