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ENGLISH visitors to Switzerland who happen to be interested in botany must often have regretted that they did not possess a really good hand-book of the Swiss flora. The translator of Herr Gremli's well-known work has provided a volume which will exactly meet their wishes. The original book has been widely circulated in Germany, and its materials are so ample, and so carefully and intelligently arranged, that it well deserves its popularity. In the fifth edition many improvements were made, and these are, of course, embodied in the present rendering. Mr. Paitson has also been able to include the new matter presented in the French translation by M. J. J. Vetter (1885), and corrections and additions published (1887) in the latest—the fourth—of Herr Gremli's supplements. Although the work is intended in the first place for persons beginning the study of botany, it contains much information with regard to new species that will be of service to more advanced botanists. We may note that the English volume is clearly printed, and that it is of a size convenient for the use of tourists.
Flora of Switzerland for the use of Tourists and Field-Botanists.
By A. Gremli. Translated from the Fifth Edition, by Leonard W. Paitson. (London: David Nutt, 1889.)
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Flora of Switzerland for the use of Tourists and Field-Botanists.. Nature 40, 271 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040271b0
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