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A NEW BOOK BY LOUIS FIGUIER. 



THE VEGETABLE WOELD; 



BEINO 



A HISTOET OF PLAINTS, 



t WITH THEIR BOTANICAL DESORIFTIOWS AND PECULIAR PROPERTIES. 

 BY LOUIS FIGUIER, 



AUTEOE OF *'TnE WOELD EEFOEE THE DELTTGE." 



niustrated witli Four Hundred and Forty-six Engravings interspersed tlirough the 

 text, and Twenty-four full-page Illustrations, 



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"The present volume maybe considered as Ibe second contribution whicb M. Fi^ier baa 

 made toward bis Tahleaxi de la Jsfature. ' The World before tbe Deluge' contemplates a period 

 in tbe earth's history T\'hen its natural ornament was absent; when its surface was an arid desert 

 a vast solitude, the abode of bUence and death. Plants preceded animals in the order of creation ; 

 when tbe great animals which preceded men were created by the wisdom of the Ecernal, tbe 

 earth was already clothed in a mantle of vegetation. * * * * The History of Plants 

 which is now submitted to the reader U divided into four parts : — I. Tbe Organography and Phys- 

 iologj'- of Plants. IT. Tbe Classilication of Plants. III. Tbe Natural Families of I'lants. IV. 

 The Geographical Distribution of Plants." — Extract from Preface. 



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 in English, and it certainly contains more inforaaation upon the subject of which it treats than 

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 deserves to be called popular in tbi,- best sense of tbe term. It is impossible to award too bigii 

 praise to tbe engravings which illustrate and ornament tbe work. They are executed in tbe best 

 style."— iV: Y. Times. 



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