TYPES OF FLORAL MECHANISM 937 
Bower ; while admitting the futility of looking for starting points 
of lines of evolution among the relics of past ages, it is difficult 
to avoid the conclusion that the morphological features which we 
we freely admit that, theoretical considerations apart, the book is 
a production which English Botany is proud to number among the 
contributions to biological science which will always occupy a 
permanent place in the progress of knowledge. 
A word of acknowledegment is due to the publishers for the 
eae supply of illustrations, and for the high standard of the 
volume, 
A. C. SEWARD, 
Types of Floral Mechanism. A selection of diagrams and de- 
scriptions of common flowers arranged as an introduction to 
the systematic study of Angiosperms. By Arruur Harry 
Cuurcy, M.A., D.Sc. Part I. Types i-xii. (January to 
April). 4to, pp. vii, 211, with numerous full-page coloured 
plates and text-figures. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1908 
In noticing this very beautiful and elaborate work, one remark. 
seems obvious—there is nothing else like it. Originally prepared 
for class purposes, and limited to a hundred types, as illustrating 
what may be termed in popular phraseology “‘ the Hundred Best 
Flowers,” this collection of floral studies has been arranged for 
publication in the hope that it may prove useful, not only to other 
teachers and students, but also to all those who are interested in 
of, in the present case, late winter and spring flowers, 
and species nearly allied to them. To take an example, 4 rel orus 
niger (Christmas rose). A description of the habit, habitat, 
