270 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
In the present instalment are enumerated 504 genera and 
en spots The observations of course vary greatly in sinning 
e plants are daaouad of in three or four lines ; others—e. g. 
Solis corniculatus—occupy as many pages; it is intorouting, by 
the way, to — that for L. uliginosus very few insect visitors are 
recorded a more interesting and important cases a 
detailed deseription of the flower—ofte ) a 
niece gets given, fo lowed by a classified list of the visitors 
completed, whether an abridged and consequently much cheaper 
edition, relating to these alone, might not be issued for the use of 
British botanists. The work is turned out as well as Clarendon 
Press books acted always are 
Mosses and Liverworts. An Introduction to their Study, with 
Hints as to their Collection and Preservation. a 
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Tuts book is bara for those who have little or no know- 
ledge of the Muscinee. It is the outcome of the author’s intense 
logy has been apprec Accordingly he has employed, or has 
coined, Sener equivalents which must often strike the moss- 
student essly ¢ me substitutes. Thus, 
“ Swan-neck Th in place of the simple and 
me I moss, 
accurate Latin binomial Mniuwm seigongens is a heavy tax to place 
upon a beginner’s memory; but it is only a to add that the 
Latin name is always added in an explanatory parenthesis. 
Again, “ fertilizing flower” and “ fruit- -bearing flower,” in ry) 
antheridium and es respectively, seem to be sintincgnte 
that they are certain to lure numbers of y young persons or leisured 
amateurs to seek a further acquaintance with pes bryophytes. 
student in the way of preparing, examining, and mounting his 
specimens appears to be omitted. The most appropriate apparatus, 
