414 Scientific Intelligence. 
ment of a portion of his valuable time to prepare a volume by which be- 
ginners, having no previous acquaintance with the science, may learn to 
The characteristic features of the work before us, are: 1, The full use 
of analytical keys, after the mode of De Candolle’s Flora Frangaise, 
leading easily not only to the order and the genus, but also. to the species 
of the plant in hand. These keys, or analyses, are here made to supersede 
specific characters as such, neat and free descriptions, longer or shorter 
according to circumstances, occupying their place. But generic charac- 
ters are given with considerable fullness, 2, The exclusion of all techni- 
cal terms which were not required for the purpose in view, and “ the 
insta’ i 
but useless to the mere amateur.” 3, The descriptions are original, and 
have been drawn up from British specimens, in the first instance, and af- 
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4, The geographical range of each species, at least its European range, 
“ Taking into account the omission of all plants erroneously indicated 
as British, it will still, no doubt, be a matter of astonishment that, whilst 
ition of Hooker and Arnott’s Flora contains 1571 species, re 
