HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA; a Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns indigenous to, or naturalized in, the British Isles. For the Use of Beginners and Amateurs. By George Bentham, F.R.S., President of the Linnean Society. Crown 8vo, 680 pp., 12s.
Distinguished for its terse and clear style of description; for the introduction of a system of Analytical Keys, which enable the student to determine the family and genus of a plant at once by the observation of its more striking characters; and for the valuable information here given for the first time of the geographical range of each species in foreign countries.
HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA, Illustrated Edition; a Description (with a Wood-Engraving, including dissections, of each species) of the Flowering Plants and Ferns indigenous to, or naturalized in, the British Isles. By George Bentham, F.R.S., President of the Linnean Society. Demy 8vo, 2 vols., 1154, pp. 1295 Wood-Engravings, from Original Drawings by W. Fitch. £3. 10s.
An illustrated edition of the foregoing Work, in which every species is accompanied by an elaborate Wood-Engraving of the Plant, with dissections of its leading structural peculiarities.
THE FIELD BOTANIST’S COMPANION; a Familiar Account, in the Four Seasons, of the most common of the Wild Flowering Plants of the British Isles. By Thomas Moore, F.L.S. One volume, Demy 8vo, 424 pp.. With 24 Coloured Plates, by W. Fitch, 21s.
An elegantly-illustrated volume, intended for Beginners, describing the plants most readily gathered in our fields and hedge-rows, with the progress of the seasons. Dissections of the parts of the flowers are introduced among the Figures, so that an insight may be readily obtained not only of the Species and name of each plant, but of its structure and characters of classification.
CURTIS’S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, comprising the Plants of the Royal Gardens of Kew, and of other Botanical Establishments. By Dr. J. D. Hooker, F.R.S., Director of the Royal Gardens. Royal 8vo. Published Monthly, with 6 Plates, 3s. 6d. coloured. Vol. XXII. of the Third Series (being Vol. XCII. of the entire work) in course of publication. A Complete Set from the commencement may be had.