( 4 ) 
A NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH GRASSES. 
By E. J. Lowe, Esq., E.E.S., E.E.A.S., &c. Illustrated with. 74 finely- 
coloured Plates. In One Volume, super-royal 8vo., price £1 Is. 
This is a work not only valuable to the botanical student for its pictorial 
accuracy, but of use also to the landed proprietor and the farmer, pointing out 
to them those grasses which are usoful and lucrative in husbandly, and teaching 
them the varied soils and positions upon which they thrive, and explaining their 
qualities and the several uses to which they are applied in many branches of 
inaiiufacturo and industry. There is much interesting matter also in this volume 
appertaining to the anoioiit customs and superstitions connected with the subject, 
which the author brings before his reader in a forcible rather than in a prolix 
style. 
‘It is very faithful, and marvellously cheap, considering the beautiful manner in which it is 
produced .’ — Literary Hecord. 
MAUND’S BOTANIC GARDEN. 
Consisting of highly-finished Figures of Hardy Ornamental Flowering 
Plants Cultivated in Great Britain, tvith their Names, Orders, History, 
Qualities, Culture, and Physiological Observations. By B. Maund, F.L.S. 
Now Edition, edited by James C. Niven, Curator of the Botanic Gardens, 
Hull. With 250 Coloured Plates, giving 1247 figures. In Six Volumes, 
snpor-royal 8vo., £12 12s. 
BRITISH SEA-WEEDS. 
Drawn from Professor Harvey’s ‘Phycologia Biitannica.’ With Descriptions, 
an Amateur’s Synopsis, Itules for Laying on Sea-woeds, an Ordei for 
Arranging thorn in the Herbarium, and an Appendix of Now Species. By 
Mrs. Alerbd Gattt. Illustrated with 80 coloured Plates, containing 384 
figures. In Two Volumes, snpor-royal 8vo., price £2 10s. 
‘Tliose who are acquainted with Mrs. Gatty’a ‘‘Parables from Nature.” and especially with 
her delightful Parable about “Ited Snow,” need not be told that the literary part has been 
ably executed by a competent and loving observer. Iii her present work she has endeavoured, 
and we think moat successfully, to translate the terms and phrases of science into the language 
of amateui’B. Mrs. Gatty’s familiarity with the plants themselves has enabled her to do this 
office without falling into the eiTora to which a mere compiler in separating from the beaten 
track would be liable.’— Chronicle. 
ALPINE PLANTS. 
Desoiiptions and 103 accurately-coloured Figures (drawn and engraved ex- 
pressly for this Work) of some of the most striking and beautiful of the 
Alpine Flowers. Edited by David Woostee, joint editor of the latest 
editions of Loudon’s ‘Encyclopaedias of Gardening and Plants,’ ‘Hortus 
Britannieus,’ &c. In One Volume, super-royal 8vo., price £1 5s. 
‘The manner in which “Alpine Plante” is produced ia creditablo alike to author and artist. 
The literary portion is not the mere dry botanical descriptions often found in such works, but 
a popular desenption of the plant, instructious as to its culture and treatment, with any in- 
teresting iiifonnation in connexion with it that can be obtained. . . . We heartily commend 
this work to all lovers of —Journal of Uovtlculiure, 
‘Not least atrioiig the illnstrated Christmas books should he reckoned this interesting work 
with its beautifully coloured specimens .’ — Saturday Recitw. 
‘ The letterpress is full, no doubt, of the most accurate botanical learning, but what we have to 
speak of more particularly are the illustrations, and these strike us as among the best specimens of 
wood-block printing. There is about them none of that plastered gaudiness, that thick and sticky 
style in which too often the wood-engraver endeavours to paint the lily. A crocus seems just to 
have thrust itself through the brown soil which the thaw has softened.’ — Times. 
