112 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
the buttereups, and thriving no worse than they, there will be 
sorrels and docks, plantains, dandelions, alchemilla, meadow saxi- 
come “evolution botanists,” who alone, as we are assured, 
can properly appreciate the history of nature. tie: 
Lehrbuch der Botanik fiir Oberrealschulen und Realschulen. Von 
Dr. To. Boxorny. 8vo. Pt. 1, pp. vi. 366: pt. 2, pp. 233; 
tt. 563. Leipzig: Engelmann. 1908. Price 7 marks, 
Dr. Boxorny’s book is one of those high-class and profusely 
illustrated junior text-books which indicate that the study of 
families, genera and species of seed-plants 
The second part contains a chapter on external morphology, 
followed by chapters on general physiology and anatomy, an 
on biology and ecology, with a brief final chapter on plant 
geography. 
The illustrations, which are taken from very various sources, 
are excellent—it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that they 
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