448 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
description of the plant, in The Westmorland Note Book and 
Natural History Record in 1889. Mr. Martindale tells us that 
REVIEWS. 
The Book of Nature Study. Edited by J. Brettanp Farmer, &c., 
assisted by a Staff of Specialists. Vol. v. pp. viii. 224. 
Caxton Publishing Co. 1s. 6d. (per vol.). 
Tue fifth volume of this very useful work, which has, we hear, 
met with a most favourable reception from the public, differs con- 
siderably from those which preceded it. It is devoted entirely to 
Botany, which it treats principally from the practical side. 
eginning with theoretical chapters on Xerophyte and Aquatic 
Vegetation, followed by others on that of Meadows and Pastures, 
and eeds of Cultivation, we are led on to others dealing 
are photographic reproductions ; the remainder—seventy-seven in 
numer—are outline drawings of plants or their organs, diagrams 
the purpose which they are meant to serve. Of the coloured 
plates, one, the frontispiece, representing some climbing hedge- 
row plants— Woody N ightshade, Clematis, Honeysuckle, and 
Blackberry—seems liable to the objection, urged in previous 
of the plants as they are actually found in nature. In the three 
rather than illustrations, in which individual flowers can with 
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difficulty be recognized— ow,” “An en, “A 
k Garden.” From the first of these especially it is hard to 
what is to be | a broad expanse of yellow-green is 
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diversified by various patches, which, as we are told in the mar- 
gin, represent, besides oak and elm trees, sorrel, buttercups, daisies, 
and clover. Much the same holds true of several of the photo- 
graphic plates, which deal with their subject on a scale too large 
