28 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Porter in the ‘Synopsis of the —— of Colorado’ (1874). “The 
demand even then for a book b means complete or conveniently 
arranged was unexpected, and in aR wonderful development of the 
decade since pao lies the confidence that a more convenient book, 
covering a greater range, will be welcome to many.” ‘This 
confidence will certainly not prove to have been misplaced. 
By the “ Rocky Mountain Region,” as here used, the author 
refers to the i beginning with the western limit of the mountain 
system, and extending eastward across the plains to the prairies, 
or Jieladting ‘Color ado, Wyoming, Montana, Western Dakota 
rm Nebra and Western Kansas. The larger part of the 
aedigiens es i are also described, embracing the western part of 
the eo Hi ete North-western Texas, Northern New Mexico 
and Arizona, and Kastern Utah and Idaho. The order of the 
* Genera yeas is followed in the main, but gymnosperms 
have been placed at the end of pheno; onl and monocotyledons 
and dicotyledons subordinated to angiosperms. Dr. Asa Gray an 
Prof. Bante Watson have, as might have eats expected of them, 
been helpful in the work; the genus Salix has been undertaken by 
ees M. 8. Bebb, and Mr. L. N, Bailey has elaborated the species — 
0 lt 
World botanists. 
Fruits and Frruit-trees, Home and Foreign; an Index to the kinds 
valued in Britain. By Leo. H. Sse Manchester: Palmer 
& Horne. 8vo, pp. xii. 820. Price 6 
Mr. Grinpon, without taking a cisinty scientific ground, or 
indulging in the speculative style of writing whic ca + fashionable — 
just now, has done much by his ooks to are know- 
_ ledge of Botany, and make the subject cepacies a the gen neral 
reader. He does not sacrifice a to | haat en as is too 
a botanica . 
intelligent observer of Nature, and whose memory is happil 
retentive of small points tending to Basteate the subject of which 
he is —_— ‘ Fruits and Fruit- trees’ would form an an 
type an and — are excellent. 
