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not absorb the liquid. As to aqueous vapor, there being free 
communication by the stomata between the air outside of the leaf 
and that w se ok intercellular spaces and passages, and the thin 
t 
continue so to absorb aqueous vapor, they ought to condense or 
appropriate it, Baie with carbonic acid gas, and so increase mani- 
festly in wei 
n Tec Course of Botany, Structural, Physiological and 
Systematic, by the late Prof. Henfrey, which was originally pub- 
lished (by Van Voorst) in 1857, is this year reproduced in a second 
edition, “revised and in part rewritten” by Dr. Max well T. Mas- 
&e. 
EF. 
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man, was a ‘sad loss to physiological botany i in Great Britain 
a oa anatomist he was becoming truly eminent. Our pid 
mate of the value of this, his last work—on the whole very fa- 
vorable—was recorded at the time in a somewhat extended review 
ia it in the number of this Journal for November, 1857 (vol. xxiv, 
pein.) 
reparation of a second edition could hardly have been con- 
signed to better hands than those of Dr. Masters, who has evinced 
well ada sies to tee eg tg up as the time, and to render it a 
valuable text-book, But we are bound to maintain that it might 
ave been more thoroughly “revised and rewritten” to great “ag 
edition. The sole alteration is in ie statement which attributed 
axillary tendrils to the Vine. We do not include some criticisms 
of another order, relating to mere theceeia points, upon which 
views which have long prevailed are retained ;—such, for instance, 
as that which unquestioningly regards the so-called radicle of the 
embryo as root, although in one part of the work its nature as 
h yledonary stem is im ied . a peed instance. That 
