Ootober 17, 1903. 
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Views and Reviews. 
Alpine Flora.* 
This attractive book runs to 112 pages, 
including a good index that deals with the 
botanical names, Gentian names, and some 
of the popular English names. It. also 1 con¬ 
tains a glossary of some of the more trouble¬ 
some technical terms which have been 
used in. order to shorten the text.. It has 
forty plates of plants done in the natural 
colours, and each plate contains a consider¬ 
able number of representative plants, so 
that, altogether, a very l%rge number of 
plants, dealt with as occurring fairly fre¬ 
quently on the Alps, are represented. 
It is not a botanical book, nor intended to 
be, as it is : chiefly meant for tourists who 
take their annual holidays upon the Alps 
and become fascinated with the beauty of 
the Alpine flora., and desire to make a more 
close acquaintance with it.. Notwithstand¬ 
ing'its not being strictly a. botanical book, 
the plants are arranged on the natural 
system, passing from the Rammculaceae, 
passing through the various classes of Di¬ 
cotyledons to the Monocotyledons, and 
finally finishing with a few of the Alpine 
F erns. 
We. could wish it had been more couipre*- 
hensdve or exhaustive, but it. is merely in¬ 
tended as an introduction to the study of 
Alpine plants, and we feel sure that those 
who go far enough to make themselves 
acquainted with a fair percentage of the 
plants figured here will desire to go. further - . 
With this object in view, the author gives 
the names of half a. dozen other books which 
go more fully into the subject, so that the 
student may pursue his subject more ex¬ 
haustively. 
Those who read of the Alpine flora, before 
they start from home are certa.in to hear 
of Edelweiss and Mountain Rose. By the 
latter isi meant Rhododendron ferrugineum, 
R. hirsutum and possibly some others of the 
dwarf Alpine Rhododendrons*, several of 
which are cultivated with considerable 
Alpine Flora, for Tourists and A mat- ur Botanists ; by Dr. 
Julius Hoffman; translated by E. S. Barton (Mrs. A. 
Gepp). Longmann, Green & Co., 39, Paternoster Row 
London, New York, and Bombay. 1903. 7s. 6d. net. 
success in this country, and others with some 
difficulty. Even such beginners, if they 
ascend the mountains to any elevation dur¬ 
ing the flowering season, will be impressed 
with the quantity or extent of ground covered 
as much as by the beauty and large size of 
certain wild flowers which grow upon the 
mountains. 
It. will soon become apparent to such 
novices that certain plants do n.ot grow in 
the lowlands, and that, to see them in a wild 
state they must ascend the mountains, where 
such things may be found in all their wild 
native beauty. Lovely as such things axe, 
they do not grow in small pieces and un¬ 
healthy scraps, struggling with untoward cir¬ 
cumstances, such as the student may often 
see in gardens at low elevations in this 
country, but in broad* stretches, forming 
carpets to the alpine meadows or on the* flat 
mountain top, or as a covering to rocks*, and 
again as an, edging to streams which they 
brighten up with the abundance of their 
flowers. 
It may here* be stated that the author 
confines his attention chiefly to the more 
showy plants, and in some cases to those 
which are merely interesting but not par¬ 
ticularly showy nor otherwise decorative. 
Those' which are, usually looked upon a,s 
weedy, such as the species of Umbellifers, 
Compos it, esi, Rushes, Sedges, and Grasses, 
have also been omitted to a great extent, 
as being more particularly of botanical in¬ 
terest,. Notwithstanding the* large number 
of plants which have been illustrated, a, few 
others have also been described, although 
unaccompanied by an illustration. With 
the object of condensing the matter as much 
as possible', the text has been made as clear 
as possible, and at the same time concise. 
The descriptions and other information given 
concerning each species of plant are confined 
to about a, dozen lines. With the help of 
these descriptions and the illustrations, 
which are wonderfully well executed for a 
work of this kind, the tourist will be able 
to determine the names of a considerable 
number of the* showy or interesting plants 
which he may find. 
A considerable number of the figures were 
painted from nature, and though we speak 
of them generally as being admirably 
