Hand-book of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student

Abstract

THE first edition of Prof. Hillhouse's translation of Strasburger's “Practical Botany” was reviewed in NATURE (vol. xxxv. p. 556). The new edition has been considerably enlarged, and is now intermediate in extent between the smaller and the larger German editions. The new matter, mainly derived from the larger “Botanisches Practicum,” second edition, adds greatly to the value of the book. The most important additions are the accounts of the reproduction of Fucus and of Chara, and of the fertilization and embryology of Picea. The much fuller description of the reproduction of Mucor must also be noticed, as well as the considerable alterations, affecting both text and figures, 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, Revised and Enlarged. With 116 original and 33 additional Illustrations. (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1889.)