In Monthly parts, at 5 s. To be completed in about 66 parts, 
Sowerby’s English Botany: 
Containing a Description and Life-Size Drawing of every British 
Plant. Edited and brought up to the present standard of scientific 
knowledge by T. Boswell Syme, F.L.S., &c. With Popular 
Descriptions of the Uses, History, and Traditions of each Plant, by 
Mrs. Lankester, Author of “Wild Flowers worth Notice,” 
“The British Ferns,” &c. The Figures by J. E. Sowerby, 
James Sowerby, F.L.S., J. de C. Sowerby, F.L.S., and J. 
W. Salter, A.L.S. 
The Distinctive Characteristics of this edition are,— 
1. A life-size drawing of every British plant, arranged according to 
the Natural System of De Candolle. 
2. Where necessary, the plates are accompanied by illustrations of the 
structure of the various organs of the plant, especially of those struc¬ 
tures discovered within the last few years by the use of the microscope. 
3. All the illustrations are full-coloured, instead of half-coloured, and 
the utmost care is taken to adhere as closely as possible to nature. 
“Under the editorship of T. Boswell Syme, F.L.S., assisted by Mrs. Lankester, 
whose work on * Wildflowers worth Notice ’ is so well appreciated by the public, 
we have the best guarantee that ‘ Sowerby’s English Botany,’ when finished, will be 
exhaustive of the subject, and worthy of the branch of science it illustrates. . . 
In turning over the charmingly executed hand-coloured plates of British plants 
which encumber these volumes with riches, the reader cannot help being struck with 
the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with careless step. 
Our fields, woods, and hillsides, are paved with riches we all too much neglect. . . 
We cannot dwell upon many of the individuals grouped in the splendid bouquet of 
flowers presented in these pages, and it will be sufficient to state that the work is 
pledged to contain a figure of every wild flower indigenous to these isles.’ ‘— The Times, 
Nov. 3, 1865. 
“ Will be the most complete Flora of Great Britain ever brought out. This great 
work will find a place wherever botanical science is cultivated, and the study of our 
native plants, with all their fascinating associations, held dear.”— Athenaeum. 
“ Nothing can exceed the beauty and accuracy of the coloured figures. They are 
drawn life-size—an advantage which every young amateur will recognize who has vainly 
puzzled over drawings in which a celandine is as big as a poppy—they are enriched 
with delicate delineations of print, petal, anther, and any organ which happens to be 
remarkable in its form—and not a few plates are altogether new.A clear, 
bold, distinctive type enables the reader to take in at a glance the arrangement and 
divisions of every page. And Mrs. Lankester has added to the technical description 
by the editor, an extremely interesting popular sketch, which follows in smaller type. 
The English, French and German popular names are given, and, wherever that deli¬ 
cate and difficult step is at all practicable, their derivation also. Medical properties, 
superstitions, and fancies, and poetic tributes and illusions follow. In short, there 
is nothing more left to be desired.”— Guardian. 
“ Should the succeeding parts be as good, the work, when complete, will be without 
a rival in excellence.”— Observer. 
“ Without question, this is the standard work on Botany, and indispensable to 
every botanist. . . The plates are most accurate and beautiful, and the entire work 
cannot be too strongly recommended to all who are interested in Botany.”— Illus¬ 
trated London News. 
LONDON : ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY. 
