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An appreciation of Dick by Gesner is on p. 141: “ Agnovi in eo 
hominem rei herbarize studiosissimum. et diligentissimum, atque 
in Botanica helvetica versatissimum.”—James BrirTen. 
REVIEWS. 
ELEMENTARY Trxt-Books. 
1. Prantl’s Lehrbuch der Botanik. Herausgegeben und neu 
; | Pax. | 13 verbesserte u. 
vermehrte Auflage. Large 8vo, pp. v, 498, with 462 text- 
Leipzig: Engelmann. 1909. Price 6 marks. 
in text. London: Macmillans. 1909. Price 1s us 
3. Beginners’ Botany. By L. H. Barmy. Small 8vo, pp. viii, 
208; 302 text-figures. New York: The Macmillan Go. 1908. 
Price 3s. 6d. 
PRANTL’s text-book of botany, issued from Wurzburg in 
nearly two generations of students, and was the origin of the 
larger text-book by the same author, The present, the thirteenth 
German edition, by Professor Pax, closely resembles his twelfth 
edition of 1903. There is a small increase in size, represented by 
However, these are perhaps subjects better left for the more 
advanced course, and as an elementary text-book the Prantl-Pax 
Lehrbuch remains unsurpassed, and, at any rate for the price, un- 
equalled. The figures are excellent, the text clear, and the subject- 
functions. This is followed by chapters on fruits and their 
dispersal, and on seeds and their germination. Root, stem, leaf 
