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festuceformis does not grow in Algeria nor in Egypt, nor - indeed 
n the southern shore of the Mediterranean”; but 
Battandier and Trabut (Fiore d’Alger, Monocotyledones, p 210 
ree 4 ) record it from “terrains marécageux salés: Tanger, Micaas 
mes m, ema ie La Macta, Ainsfa prés Vialar, Batna.”’ a 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Taree Text Books. 
A Manual us Bota By J. Reynotpys Green, 8e.D., F.B.S.; 
Professor of. Sileay to the Phacmaistufisal Society of Great 
Britain, Vol. I.—Mor ae gy and Anatomy. Third edition. 
Pp. xii, 395; figs. 778. London: Churchill. 1904. Price 7s. 6d. 
An Introduction to Botany. By Witt1am Case Stevens, Professor 
of Botany in the University of Kansas. pp. viii, 436; 
figs. 340. London: Heath. 1904. Price 4 
Second Stage Botany. By J. M. Lowson, M.A., B. Se. late Le 
at the University Tutorial Co llege. 8vo, pp. vili, 452; 
812. London: University Tutorial Press. 1904. Price 3s. 6d. 
Tue third edition of the first volume of Professor Green’s well- 
eer text-book, the first edition of which was favourably reviewed 
in this Journal for 1895 (p. i ee for typographical pe 
does not differ from the second edition, which was issued in 7. 
The larger aati “i oa volume (Book j i.), entitled “ Morphologi6al 
Botany,” forms cise and useful general account of the mor- 
phology of the hii plants in three chapters, entitled respectively 
* General Morphology of the Plant,’ dealing with the vegetative 
organs; ‘* Morphology of the Reproductive Organs’’; and ‘‘ Mor- 
phology of the Fruit and Seed.”” Some reference is "made in the 
devoted to these groups is very small. The general form and re- 
lations of the vegetative and floral organs ae very fully treated, 
the descriptive matter is concise and clear, and illustrations are 
some other illustration than duck-weed might be found as an eX- 
ample of a root-cap; the cap is obvious, but does not represent 
what is generally nay or oh by the term. 
ook ii., “* Anatomy of Plants,” forms the smaller ‘* half” of the 
book (pp. 271-888). Tt comprises chapters—‘ The Vegetable Cell” 
(by the way, why not plant cell ?), ‘“ Formation of Cells and Tissues,’ 
* Tissue Systems,” ae three on the structure of the stem, root an 
leaf SS vely. Here again it is mainly the highest group of 
plants that is dealt with, and the student will find this a useful 
bene ‘of —— . Bam sone .° course of practical work on the 
elementary anato f this gro The volume is a handy size, 
but why did the sicsnti use alte faint ink ? 
