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distinguished and laborious phytographer about seventy years ago 

 into his illustrious career. Nevertheless he never applied this 

 system of dualism to any of his writings, except the " Analytic 

 Key to the natural orders and anomolous genera" of his 

 " Handbook of the British Flora," that analysis extending over 

 eleven pages ; but the mode adopted involved some repetitions 

 and in no way adhered to systematic sequence. 



According to Lamarck's method hitherto only two works,, 

 elaborated in the English language, have become accessible here; 

 both quite small and both of recent date, one issued by Dr. W. 

 Marshall Watts in 1878, "a School Flora for elementary botanical 

 classes," as indicated by B. D. Jackson's excellent " Guide to 

 Botanic literature." Of the particulars of this work I was not 

 aware until some months ago, when the second edition, published 

 last year, was reviewed by the accomplished Mr. James Britten 

 in his " Journal of Botany ; " a copy of this edition reached me 

 here only this month. It is intended for any students, "who 

 have mastered the elements of botanic science," and is purposely 

 kept very brief, to serve mainly for quick reference during a 

 " country ramble," it being understood, that for home-studies 

 could be consulted any of the numerous works on the British 

 Flora, which appeared since Hudson's time, and among which Sir 

 Jos. Hooker's Student's Flora and Babington's Manual — both 

 particularly excellent — are brought up to recent date. For its 

 purpose the work is as a whole well carried out ; but it would be 

 too abridged as a sole source for information ; moreover it omits 

 for briefness' sake many of the rarer plants, so that the number 

 of the species treated does not exceed 900, — few immigrated 

 plants being admitted. Nevertheless the little book is sure to 

 render good services in its own way, which would be greater still 

 if some illustrations could be added ; a particularly gratifying 

 feature in this work is the strict adherence to systematic sequence 

 at least for species. The second work, alluded to above, is the 

 " Handbook of the Plants of Tasmania " by the late Rev. W. W. 

 Spicer, published also in 1878, and resulting from his two years' 

 stay at Hobart, where the accumulated material of Gunn, Milligan 

 and Archer was at the reverend gentleman's disposal, who based 

 his compilation on the large " Flora Tasmania? " by Sir Joseph 

 Hooker, which resulted as one of the collateral achievements of 

 Sir James Ross's Antarctic Expedition. Newer observations 

 were obtained for Spicer's Handbook partly from works of the 

 great George Bentham, and partly from volumes of the writer of 

 this essay. This literary gift is all the more to be appreciated, 

 as it was that of an invalid, whom search for health brought to 

 these far southern shores. Deducting introduced plants, the 

 number of species, treated by Mr. Spicer, is nearly a thousand,. 



