WE are very glad indeed to welcome Prof. Vines' new book. It is the first English text-book of modern botany that has yet appeared. The book has grown out of the author's translation of Prantl's ...

THIS text-book, we are informed in the English preface, “was written by Prof. Prantl, to meet a growing demand for a work on botany, which, while less voluminous than the well-known work of Sachs, ...