THERE are not wanting signs that the study of botany is steadily increasing in this country. An immense number of text-books or manuals have been published in English during the last thirty years ...

in the chapters on vascular Hand-book of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student. E. Strasburger. Edited, from the German, by W. Hillhouse, M.A., F.L.S. Second Edition ...