NATURE NOTES 
150 
174 pages of letterpress give none too much space for description. What there 
is is excellent ; but it is to be regretted that it was not possible to arrange the 
species in some order, or that, failing this, the classified index was not replaced 
by some such brief systematic diagnosis as the present writer used in his 
“ Familiar Trees.” Perhaps the publishers will find room for the few additional 
pages necessary in the next edition, in which case we would plead also for the 
strict botanical usage in the matter of capital initial letters to specific names. 
HOLE OK liKEClI. 
The drawings of details in the text are very good, though more are needed for 
identification of willows and other types, for which we would suggest as models 
the little cuts in the French floras of MM. Honnier and l)e Layens. The photo- 
graphic illustrations are simply exquisite. No better plan could have liecn adopted 
than that of photographing the same tree from the same point of view in summer 
and in winter ; and the representations of the boles at close quarters, two of 
