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ALPINE PLANTS. 
Second Sum-. Containing l'iit\ four Coloured Plat . with 01 
l'i os on each Plate. Descriptions nnd >ured I 
(drawn and engraved expresslj for this Work ol the most Btrikii 
beautiful of the Llpine Plants. Edited bj I 1 vtd Woostkb 
BRITISH MOSSES. 
Their Somes, Aspects, Structure, and CTses. Containing ;t Coloui 
of each species, etched from Nature. Bj F. B.Tripp. Illustrated wil 
beautifully-coloured Plates, tn Two Yolumos, iu] 
• It is a book to read, t<> ponder, bo mark, learn, and inw - 
know the "moral" of mi enquire within I 
these humble plants have their uses, their virtu , and tl —Morning i 
HISTORY OF THE FISHES OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 
By Jonathan Couch, F.L.S.. Illustrated with 256 carefullj 
Plates. New Edition, in Four Volumes, super-royal B 
'The author, who is wel] known as on 
has for fifty years been observing, noting, and drawing, with his own pencil, thi 
which live in British waters — a vasl labour, in which I 
living in various portions of the United Kingdom. T beautifully 
life, and some of the portraits (especially i really hum . 
the recognition of a fish a work of the greati Thi Field. 
SOWERBY'S ENGLISH BOTANY: 
Containing a Description and Life-size coloured Drawing of B 
Plant. Edited and brought up to the Pi - indard of Scientific 
Knowledge by T. Boswell, (formerly Stme,) l.l.h. F.L.S Wil 
Popular Descriptions of the Uses, History, and Ti diti i 
Mrs. Lanki.mi.k. A.uthor of 'Wild Flowers W th N I I B I 
Ferns,' &c. The Figures by J. E. Soweebt, Jameb Sowerbt, F.L.S., 
J. De C. Sowebby, F.L.S., and J. W. Saltee, A.L.S I Elevei \ 
with 1824 full-page coloured plates, Buper-royal Bvn (i 
'TJ n dert] p of T. Boswell Syme, F.LS., assisted by 
English Botany," when finished, will be exhaustive of I t, and worl 
of science it illustrates. . . . In turning over the chair 
which i Dcumber these vrolumea witl 
Btruck with the beauty of many of the humblest flow* 
QOt dwell upi many of I 
flowers 
contain a figure of every wild flower u • ' 
•The most complete Flora of Greal Br broughl out. 
a place wherever botanical cultivated, 
their fascinating assoc Id dear.'— Athena 
'Nothing can exceed the beauty and accuracy of tl 
life-size— an imateur wi 
dxawinga in which a celandine i a poppy-l 
tions of fruit, petal, i 
not a few plates are altogether new L clear, bold 
