260 ELEMENTS OP BOTANY. 



De Bary,** Comparative Anatomy of the Phanerogams and Ferns. 

 Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1884. 



Bessey, Botany. Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1888. 



Thom6, Structural and Physiological Botany. John Wiley & Sons, 

 New York, 1891. 



Sachs, Lectures on The Physiology of Plants. Macmillan & Co., 

 Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1887. 



Gray's Structural Botany is written in an exceedingly cloar and 

 readable style. It is not brought down to date and it gives little 

 histology ; it is well supplemented by De Bary's work, and these two 

 books, with the masterly lectures by Sachs, furnish a very full account 

 of vegetable structure and life. Vines, Physiology of Plants, Cam- 

 bridge, University Press, 1886, is more to be depended on in its 

 chemical statements than the work of Sachs. Either Bessey's or 

 Thom6's book furnishes a brief summary of anatomy and physiology. 



Morphological. 



Goebel, Outlines of Classification and Special Morphology of Plants.** 

 Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1887. 



Pax, Morphologic der Pflanzen.** Enke, Stuttgart, 1890. 



Systematic. 



Warming and Potter, Handbook of Systematic Botany.** Mac- 

 millan & Co., New York, 1895. , 



Engler and Prantl, Die NaiUrlichen Pflanzenfamilien.** Engel- 

 mann, Leipzig. 



Le Maout and Decaisne, Traite General de Botanique.** Firmin 

 Didot Freres, Fils & Cie, Paris. 



Vines, Student's Text-Book (see above). 



Strasburger, NoU, Schenk, and Schimper, Lehrbuch (see above). 



The first-named book in the list is clear, ably written, and 

 sufficient for aU ordinary purposes. Engler and Prantl's work in 

 several volumes is a very large and elaborate one, not yet completed, 

 with a wealth of illustrations. Le Maout and Decaisne's treatise is 

 not modern, but is abundantly illustrated and wiU be found useful. 



