122 BOTANIKENS HISTORIA. 
The list of Esculents is tone by a list of Poisonous Fungi 
Here the author is on ~ und; we are willing to admit that 
his species are “all pois = 
One hundred and thirty. three culinary recipes are given, but as 
the fangi are mentioned under the new popular names, the myco- 
logical mind becomes seriously fogged in their perusal ; for instance, 
we are told how ‘To prepare Urchins,” ‘“ T'o pickle Redmilks,”’ 
‘Blushers & la Barigoule,” «To prepare Paxils,” ‘To prepare 
Spindleshanks,” <‘ To ona Lorchels,”  ‘ Oaktongne & la 
Druidesse,” &c. The constant necessity for reference to the 
e 
popular index becomes sexy irritating, and in this process the 
ger of a mistake becomes intensifie 
Although the book before us is, as we have shown, not without 
and figures’’ is the mo noying part of the book, and for this 
part the author is Seton not responsible. wa ¢: 
Botanikens historia; i ore of B. Héerett. Géteborg (Bolinder), 
304. 
Tuts historical survey of Botany belongs to the class of books 
which includes Sachs’s ‘Geschichte der Botanik’ and Hoefer’s 
‘Histoire de la Botanique.’ Although written in Swedish, a 
ieee not much studied in this country, the book before us is 
commended to our readers on account of the care which Pastor 
Héarell has taken to give a notice of every writer known to him; 
consequently the list of authors, especially British authors, is much 
ore extensive than those cited by the French and German writers 
above mentioned. he preface acknowledges assistance from various 
friends in Scandinavia and abroad, who have supplied particulars in 
answer to the author's request. Ancient Botany is considered to em- 
brace the period of B.C. 830 with Aristotle, to a.v. 1530, Hermolaus 
Barbaru s and Leonicenus closing this list. Modern mm Botany pie 
8, ihe first “ise being from 1530 to 1737, Cexsalpinus to the 
first edition of Linnseus’s ‘Systema,’ with sections 1530- 1608, 
1603-1671, and 1671-1785. The second period includes the whois 
of botanical progress from 1785 to 1885. The author treats his 
subjects to some extent geographically, grouping the several 
nopercean se themselves within each period. Following these, 
we fin ions devoted to the history ae orphology, an atomy 
and sh jealaay , and then ae special orders, sitvesciled by succinet 
sketches of systems of arrangement. Travels are next touche 
upon, and the book ends with notices of those who have appreciably 
advanced our knowledge of plants. 
he book can be recommended as giving in a condensed form 
an — amount of recent information which no other work 
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