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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Outlines of Classification and Special Morphology of Plants. By 
Dr. K. Gorzen. Translated by Henry E. F. Garnszy, M.A., 
and Revised by Prof. I. B. Batrour, M.A., M.D., F.B.S. 
Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1887. 
familiar. The translator and the reviser may therefore be thanked at 
the outset for undertaking a too often thankless task. It may be 
remarked that the title-page of this version of the book, from the 
use of the terms “authorised” and “revised” and from the source 
. 
not been caused therefore by translator or revisor, and we must 
: about the loss of time in bringing this excellent 
c. 
ugh the original book has been in the hands of students 
since 1882, I may be permitted to describe its contents on this 
occasion of its appearing in our language. Book II. of Sachs’ 
‘ Text-book’ (of which, as has been said, this is a new edition) was 
not its strongest portion, and the wisdom of entrusting the new 
dertaking to 
un ‘ 
achieved. A ‘terminology based upon homology” is employed, 
and while admitting the consistency claimed for it, the present 
writer does not believe it to be the best system. A discussion, 
however, of that subject would lead away from the purpose of this 
notice. The 
reform of classification at once engages the attention. The author 
begins with the Myaomycetes, and therein is distinctly in accord 
and the Schizomycetes, as was to be expected. The fourth group is 
ions: C 
mycetes, Ascomycetes, Aecidiomycetes (Uredinee), and Basidiomycetes. 
It will be noticed that this arrangement of the Fungi is on the lines 
laid down by De Bary in the ‘ Botanische Zeitung,’ 1881; and 
