THIS book differs from Mr. Bettany's (vol. xxiv. p. 235) in being less general in its treatment. It is in fact a series of studies of the coarse anatomy of a number of common plants much on the plan ...

THE first edition of Part I. of Profs. Bower and Vines's “Practical Botany” was published in 1885 (see NATURE, vol. xxxii. p. 73); and during the three, years that have elapsed the book has become ...