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ley's proportions were better ; he gave to each of his groups 
space as follows: Filicales, 58 pages; Muscales, JT, Fun- 
gales, 185 ; Algales, 156. It may be remarked also that 
Berkeley's order is the reverse of that adopted in the book 
under consideration. 
There are many points which might be' critically discussed 
in this book ; naturally so, because its enforced brevity com- 
pels a summary treatment, in which the names of things are 
not fully given. But we have sufficiently indicated the gen- 
eral character of the work, which will unquestionably be very 
Ms&{v\.— Charles E. Bessey. 
Bastin's Botany.' — This book is a revised and enlarged 
edition of Professor Bastin's " Elements of Botany," which ap- 
peared a couple of years ago. The enlargement has greatly 
improved what was a good book to start with, and in the vol- 
ume before us we have a nicely gotten up and useful work. 
Following in part the older ideas, toward which there is now 
an evident return among botanists, the author devotes thir- 
teen chapters to Organography, which is, in fact, the organ- 
ography of the flowering plants alone. The student will be 
likely (unless corrected by his teacher) to get somewhat warped 
notions as to the vegetative organs, and the organs of repro- 
duction in the vegetable kingdom, from these 120 pages of in- 
troductory matter. 
Then follow three chapters (aggregating about lOO pages) 
devoted to vegetable histology, in which the cell, plant tissues, 
and tissue systems are discussed. About 40 pages of Veg- 
etable Physiology follow, and the remainder of the book is 
taken up with a brief survey of the vegetable kingdom, from 
the Myxomycetes to the Spermaphytes, and two brief chapters 
on the succession of vegetable life. There is also a glossary 
of about 30 pages, and a full xv^A^yi.— Charles E. Bessey. 
Dyer's Folk-Lore of Plants.'— This is not a botanical 
book, unless we interpret liberally that very liberal definition 
of botany which declares it to include " every inquiry about 
' CoUegi Botany, including Organography, Vegetable Histology, Vegetable 
1 hysiology, and Vegetable Taxonomy, with a brief account of the Saccession_ot 
Plants in Geologic Time, and a glossary of Botanical Leaves. By Edson S. Bastin, 
A.M., F.R.M.S., Professor of Botany, Materia Medica and Microscopy in the 
Chicago College of Pharmacy. Chicago : G. P. Engelhard & Co., 1889. 8vo, pp. 
XVI. 451, with 579 Figures in the text. 
^ ' The Folk-Lore of Plants. By T. F. Thiselton Dyer. New York: D. 
Appleton & Company. 1889. l2mo, 328 pp. 
