318 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Unver the title ‘The Student’s Guide to Structural, Morpho- 
logical, and sid et Botany’ (J. A. Churchill & Co.) Prof. 
Bentley has issued a compact little volume intended to ‘serve as 
an introduction to the — s ‘Manual of Botany,’ and other 
larger and more comprehensive works.’’ Much care has been 
exereised in bringing the book up to date; the mre are 
numerous and well executed; and the volume cannot, hink, 
fail to es of great service as an introduction, not only to ‘larger 
works,’’ but to the study of the science of which it treats. 
HE recently issued part (fasc. xc.) of the ‘ Flora betsnat is’ 
iatades the Gramineae, the Andropogonee and Tristeginee, of 
which it consists, being undertaken by M. E. Hackel. 
KE has issued the concluding part of the second 
volume of “his ‘Illustrations of British Fungi,’ with index to 
i. and ii. It is intended to proceed forthwith with the 
publication of the ‘Illustrations’ of the remaining sections of 
ork does not receive the support which it certainly deserves, 
“pga a ‘sige accounts for the somewhat ae eine charged for 
umber 
Tue second number of vol. xii. of ‘English Botany’ (No. 85 of 
the whole work) succeeds ae first with commendable asad ite 
It contains five new plate a Thelypteris, L. remota, 
uliginosa, L. glandulosa, a: . emula— showing so marked ss 
improvement upon the remainder, especially those of the old 
es one Botany,’ that we regret that there are not more of 
Messrs. os & Co. have begun a reissue of Mr. Britten’s 
‘Kuropean Ferns.’ 
THosE 5 tanists who are interested in the relations between 
(No. 100). We must suppose that the Coun vil had some reason 
for so doing, but it seems to us that they would have been more in 
place in the Botanical section of the ‘ Journal.’ 
Mr. T. R. Arcurr Brices sends us a second instalment of his 
‘Queries in Local Topographical Botany,’ reprinted from the 
‘Transactions of ote bagers Institution’ for 1882-838. We 
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the second is equal to it in value and interest. It is mainly 
occupied with the Umbellifere of Devon and Cornwall, the histo 
a Tideec elega cornubiense as a British plant being especially 
resting. 
