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ALPINE PLANTS, 
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Figures on each Plate. Descriptions and accurately- coloured Figures 
(drawn and engraved expressly for this Work) of the most striking and 
beautiful of the Alpine Plants. Edited by D.\vtD Woostee. Price £l 5s. 
BEITISH MOSSES. 
Their Homes, Aspects, Structure, and Uses. Containing a Coloured Figure 
of each species, etched from Nature. By F. E. Teq-p. Illustrated with 39 
beautifully-coloured Plates. In Two A'^olumcs, super-royal 8vo., £2 10s. 
‘It is a book to read, to ponder, to mark, learn, and inwardly digest. . , . Let those who want to 
know the “moral” of mosses enquire within the covers of the volume. lie will theiy find that 
these humble plants have their uses, their virtues, and their mission .’ — Movmiig Advertise!', 
HISTORY OP THE PISHES OP THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 
By JoKATjiAN Cocen, F.L.S.. Illustrated with 25G carefully coloured 
Piatos. Now Edition, in Four Volumes, super-royal 8vo., price £I 4s. 
‘Tile author, who is well known as one of the first practio.al authorities^ on British fishes, 
has for fifty years been obsei-ving, noting, and drawing, with ids own pencil, the various fish 
which live in British waters — a vast labour, in which he has been assisted by scientific friends 
living in v.arions portions of the United Kingdom. The drawings are beautifully coloured to 
life, and some of the poi'traits (especially of the dog-&h) are really marveUoua, rendering 
tile recognition of a fish a work of the greatest ease .’ — The Field. 
SOWERBY’S ENGLISH BOTANY: 
Contaiuing a Description and Life-size coloured Drawing of every British 
Plant. Edited and brought up to the Present Standard of Scientific 
Knowledge by T. Boswell, (formerly SrME,) LL D. F.L.S. Ac. With 
Poimlar Descriptions of the Uses, History, and Traditions of each Plant, by 
Mrs. Lankicstee, Author of ‘Wild Flowers Worth Notice,’ ‘The British 
Ferns,’ &c. The Figures by J. E. Sowheet, James SowEEur, F.L.S., 
J. De 0. SowEEBY, FH.S., and J. W. Saltee, A.L.S. In Eleven Volumes, 
with 1824 full-page coloured plates, super-royal 8vo. {For prices see p. 7.) 
Vol. XII. containing the Cryptogam ous Plants and an Index to the whole 
work. In Seven Parts, 5s. each. Part I. immeiliately. 
‘Under the editoi-ship of T. Boswell Syme, B.LS., as-sisted by Mrs. Lanteter, “Sowerhy s 
English Botany,” when fmiahod, will he exhanstive of the 6ub]ect, and worthy of the branch 
of science it illustrates. . . . In turning over the charmingly executed hand-ooloiu-od plates 
of British plants wliich encumber these volumes with riches, the reader oiuiuot help being 
struck with the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on vntii careless 
stop. Wo cannot dwell upon many of the individuals grouped m the splendid bouquet of 
flowers prosented in these pages, and it will be sufficient to state ^at the woik la pledged to 
contain a figure of every wild flower indigenous to these isles. Iha limes. 
‘The most complete Flora of Great Britain ever brought out. This giyat work will find 
a place wherever botanical science is cnltivatod, and the study of our native plants, witii all 
their fascuiating associations, hold dear.’ — Athememn, 
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