A CENTURY OF ORCHIDACEOUS PLANTS, selected from those most worthy of cultivation figured in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, with coloured figures and dissections, chiefly executed by Mr. Fitch; the descriptions (entirely re-written) by Sir William J. Hooker, F.R.S. With an introduction on the culture of Orchidaceæ generally, and on the treatment of each genus; by John C. Lyons, Esq. Royal 4to, containing one hundred coloured plates. Price Five Guineas.
"In the exquisite illustrations to this splendid volume full justice has been rendered to the oddly formed and often brilliantly coloured flowers of this curious and interesting tribe of plants."—Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review.
"A very acceptable addition to our knowledge of the Orchis tribe. The plates are beautifully executed, and have been selected with great care. Each species has a brief character attached, and to each genus botanical and practical observations, from the pen of Sir William Hooker, are prefixed. The work is enriched with a prefatory memoir by Mr. Lyons, full of sound judgment and experience, on the most approved method of growing Orchids."—Literary Gazette.
POPULAR HISTORY OF BRITISH FERNS, comprising all the Species. By Thomas Moore. With twenty coloured plates by Fitch. Royal 16mo, cloth. 10s. 6d.
"Mr. Moore's 'Popular History of British Ferns' forms one of the numerous elegant and instructive books by which Messrs. Reeve and Co. have endeavoured to popularize the study of Natural History. In the volume before us, Mr. Moore gives a clear account of the British Ferns, with directions for their cultivation; accompanied by numerous coloured plates neatly illustrated, and preceded by a general introduction on the natural character of this graceful class of plants."—Spectator.
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THE BRITISH DESMIDIEÆ; or, Fresh-Water Algæ. By John Ralfs, M.R.C.S., Honorary Member of the Penzance Nat. Hist. Society. The Drawings by Edward Jenner, A.L.S. Royal 8vo, thirty-five coloured plates. Price 36s. cloth.
NEREIS AUSTRALIS; or, Illustrations of the Algæ of the Southern Ocean. By Professor Harvey, M.D., M.R.I.A. To be completed in Four Parts, each containing twenty-five coloured plates, imp. 8vo. Price 1l. 1s. Parts I. and II. recently published.
"Of this most important contribution to our knowledge of exotic Algæ, we know not if we can pay it a higher compliment than by saying it is worthy of the author. It should be observed that the work is not a selection of certain species, but an arranged system of all that is known of Australian Algæ, accompanied by figures of the new and rare ones, especially of those most remarkable for beauty of form and colour."—London Journal of Botany.