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THESE open-air studies should appeal to people who live in the country, and who care about the wild plants around them. A glance through the pages recalls many a country ramble, and a good point about the treatment in the book is that an attempt is made to connect the flora of a locality with the physical conditions which prevail there. It is a pity, however, that the author should have not adopted the names in common use for his plants—e.g. Scilia festalis the wild hyacinth or Volvulus for Convolvulus both look and sound pedantic. Moreover the glossary, which forms a necessary appendix, is sometimes disfigured by misleading statements; thus a carpel is stated to be that part of a flower which contains an ovary. But in spite of occasional slips and blemishes, the positive merits of the book should secure for it a fair measure of success.
Open-air Studies in Botany: Sketches of British Wild-flowers in their Homes.
By R. Lloyd Praeger Illustrated. (London: Charles Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1897)
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Open-air Studies in Botany: Sketches of British Wild-flowers in their Homes. Nature 58, 150 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058150b0
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