BRITTON’S MANUAL OF THE FLORA OF
THE NORTHERN STATES AND CANADA.
By Director N. L. Britton of the New York Botanical Garden.
1080 pp. 8vo. $2.25, net.
A comprehensive manual of over a thousand pages, containing about 4,500 descriptions, probably one-third more than any other. It is designed to meet modern requirements and outline modern conceptions of the science. It is based on An Illustrated Flora, prepared by Prof. Britton in co-operation with Judge Addison Brown. The text has been revised and brought up to date, and much of novelty has been added. All illustrations are omitted, but specific reference has been made to all of the 4,162 figures in the Illustrated Flora.
“It is the most complete and reliable work that ever appeared in the form of a flora of this region, and for the first time we have a manual in which the plant descriptions are drawn from the plants themselves, and do not represent compiled descriptions made by the early writers.”—Prof. D. M. Underwood of Columbia.
“This work will at once take its place as the standard manual of the region that it covers. It is far superior to any other work of its class ever published in America.”—Prof. Conway MacMillan of University of Minnesota.
“This book must at once find its way into the schools and colleges, to which it may be commended for the students in systematic botany.”—Prof. Chas. E. Bessey in “Science.”
“It is nothing if it is not compact; it is nothing if it is not up to date; it is nothing if it is not the work of a master. What more can be said, save that the more it is used the greater the appreciation by the plant-lovers in the region which it covers.”—Prof. Byron D. Halsted of Rutgers College.
“The work is well done; and as it is the only volume which gives in a way suitable for students the present state of the science, it cannot fail to take its place as a standard work.”—Prof. George Macloskie of Princeton.
“I regard the book as one that we cannot do without and one that will henceforth take its place as a necessary means of determination of the plant species within its range.”—Prof. V. M. Spalding of University of Michigan.
“An exceedingly valuable contribution to our botanical literature.... It is convenient to handle, and the low price will help to give it a large circulation.”—Prof. T. J. Burrill of the University of Illinois.