8 Williams and Norgate's New Publications. Schmidt (J. A. F.) German Guide, a Practical and Easy German Method for Beginners; Rules, Exercises, Grammatical Questions, and Vocabulary. Course I. II. 2nd Edition. In one vol. 12mo. Cloth, 38 the saine. 1st Course. 2nd Edition. 12mo. Cloth. 18 6d the same. 2nd Course. 2nd Edition. 12mo. Cloth. 18 6d 3rd Course, for more advanced Students. 12mo. Cloth. 1s 6d A Key to the 1st and 2nd Course. Price 28 | A Key to the 3rd Course. Price 28 Ahn's German Method has become very | popular in England, and justly. It is however evidently compiled by a person who has had no practice in teaching German to Englishmen. There are many difficulties, which would strike a German Master in England in the first weeks of his practice. The author of the books advertised above has been for a long time a successful teacher in this country, and they are the results of many years experience and labour. Schmidt's German Reading Book for Beginners. 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(In 1 vol. 8vo. about 800 pp.) An Arabic Chrestomathy, with complete Glossary, by the same author. (1 vol. 8vo.) WILLIAMS & NORGATE, Publishers and Importers of Foreign Books, 14, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON; 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF BENTHAM'S HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA. In Monthly Parts, price 2s. 6d., commencing January 1, 1863, HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA. (Illustrated Edition.) BY GEORGE BENTHAM, F.R.S., PRESIDENT OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. The favour with which BENTHAM'S Handbook of the British Flora' has been received, and the high position it has taken among Professors and Teachers of Botany as a Class-book, have induced the Publishers, at great cost, to undertake the publication of an Illustrated Edition. In this edition, the Text of which will be thoroughly revised by the Author, each Species will be illustrated by a finely-executed WoodEngraving of the Plant and its Dissections, from original drawings by W. FITCH. The anatomical details will faithfully represent the progress made in this department of Botanical Science to the present time. The Introduction will be re-written and adapted to the present advanced state of science, and the Analytical Key, an important feature of the Work from the valuable aid it affords the collector in determining and naming his specimens, will be rendered as perfect as possible by the adoption of such improvements as experience and study have suggested. The value of such a Work, both to the Botanical Student and the Amateur, and the assistance it will afford them in the prosecution of their studies and researches, will be obvious to all; while the very moderate price at which it will be issued will bring it within the reach of those who are debarred from more costly but now antiquated works. The 'ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA' will be completed in twenty-five Monthly Parts, each containing forty pages, and will form two handsome volumes of about 1000 pages with nearly 1300 Engravings, a few specimens of which are interspersed in the present prospectus. From the GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. "We learn that there is in preparation a new edition of Bentham's capital 'Handbook of the British Flowering Plants and Ferns,' in which every species will be illustrated by an original wood-engraving by Fitch; special attention being given to the magnified dissections and parts of the plant. More than 150 of the engravings, which are excellent, and in every way worthy of the artist, are already finished." BENTHAM'S ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA. (From the Preface.) The Author's object has been to supply a deficiency which he believes has been much felt. He has been frequently applied to to recommend a work which should enable persons having no previous knowledge of Botany to name the wild flowers they might gather in their country rambles. He has always been much embarrassed how to answer this inquiry. The book he had himself used under similar circumstances in a foreign country, the Flore Française' of De Candolle, is inapplicable to Britain. Our own standard Floras, whatever their botanical merit, require too much previous scientific knowledge for a beginner or mere amateur to understand without assistance the characters by which the plants are distinguished from each other. In the endeavour to compile a more practical guide to the botanical riches of our Islands, the author has recalled to his mind the process by which he was enabled, near forty years since, without any previous acquaintance with the subject, to determine the wild plants he gathered in the neighbourhood of Angoulême and of Montauban, the difficulties he had to surmount, and the numerous mistakes he was led into. Keeping these points in view, and taking, in some measure, De Candolle's 'Flore' as his model, he has here attempted a descriptive enumeration of all the plants wild in the British Isles, distinguished by such characters as may be readily perceived by the unlearned eye, and expressed, as far as lay in his power, in ordinary language, using such technical terms only as appeared indispensable for accuracy, and whose adopted meaning could be explained in the Work itself. Supposing, however, that descriptions are so successfully drawn up that the young botanist may readily identify them with the corresponding plants, they alone are insufficient; he cannot be expected to read them all through till he comes to the one which he is in search of. Some method of arrangement must be adopted. They must be so classed as to enable him to refer, by as simple a process as possible, to the identical description belonging to his plant. If he knows the name, and wishes to ascertain what kind of a plant it designates, an Alphabetical Index is at once suggested. For the converse problem, where the plant is given and its name is sought for, some corresponding device must be resorted to, and the more simple it is the better it will answer its purpose. The method adopted is that originally proposed by Lamarck, and applied to the whole of the French Flora. The general principle of this system consists in the searching for some striking character which will at once separate all the plants belonging to the Flora into two groups, then, taking each group in succession, dividing it again into two smaller ones in the same way, and so on until the species become isolated. In this process certainty and rapidity are the two great objects; and the most important rules to follow are, first, the selection, at each operation, of characters so absolute as to afford the least room for hesitation as to which of the two divisions the plant in question belongs to; and, secondly, the formation of subdivisions as nearly equal in point of number of species as possible. BENTHAM'S ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA. [Specimen Page.] CRUCIFERÆ. 3 1. Common Wintercress. Barbarea vulgaris, Br. (Erysimum barbarea, Eng. Bot. t. 443. Wintercress. Yellow Rocket.) A perennial of short duration, stiff and erect, green and glabrous, sparingly branched, 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves mostly pinnate, with the terminal lobe large, broad, and very obtuse, whilst the lower ones are few, small, and narrow; very rarely all the lobes are narrow, or some of the leaves oblong and undivided, but deeply toothed at the base. Flowers rather small, bright yellow. Pods usually very numerous, erect or slightly spreading, and crowded in a long dense raceme, each one from to 2, or even 3 inches long, terminated by an erect, usually pointed style, varying from a line to 2 lines in length. Hedges, or pastures and waste places, common all over Europe, in Russian 樓 Asia and northern America. Frequent in Britain. Fl. spring and summer. It varies much in the relative size of the lobes of the leaves in the size of the flowers, in the length and thickness of the pod, in the length of the style, etc. A form with a very short and thick style, is often considered as a species, under the name of B. præcox (Eng. Bot. t. 1129), but it passes by every gradation into those which have a pointed style of 2 lines, and which have again been distinguished under the name of B. stricta. IV. WATERCRESS. NASTURTIUM. Glabrous perennials or annuals, with the leaves often pinnate or pinnately lobed, and small white or yellow flowers. Calyx rather loose. Stigma capitate, nearly sessile. Pod linear or oblong, and usually curved, or in some species short like a silicule, the valves very convex, with the midrib scarcely visible. Seeds more or less distinctly arranged in two rows in each cell, and not winged. Radicle accumbent on the edge of the cotyledons. Pod usually half an inch long or more. Flowers white Flowers yellow 1. Common W. 2. Creeping W. LOVELL REEVE & CO., 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. CONCHOLOGY. On January 1st, 1863, copiously illustrated with Wood-Engravings, THE LAND AND FRESHWATER MOLLUSKS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. BY LOVELL REEVE, F.L.S. THIS work treats mainly of the phenomena of geographical distribution, and with the hope of making it useful both to collectors of shells and to observers of the external characters and habits of the mollusk, figures are given of the shell of each species, and of a living animal of each genus. An Introduction to the Natural History of Shells, and of the Animals which form them. In 2 vols., price £2. 16s. coloured. Conchologia Systematica. ་་འའ་ངང་ངམོ་ A Complete System of Conchology; in which the Mollusca are described and classified according Conchologia Iconica; Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Shells of the Mollusca, with Remarks on their Affinities, Synonymy, and Geographical Distribution. The Drawings by G. B. SOWERBY, F.L.S. Pub lished Monthly in Parts, 10s. coloured; and in Monographs of each genus separately. "This great work is intended to embrace a complete description and illustration of the Shells of Molluscous Animals; and so far as we have seen, it is not such as to disappoint the large expectations that have been formed respecting it. The figures of the Shells are all of full size: in the descriptions a careful analysis is given of the labours of others; and the author has apparently spared no pains to make the work a standard authority on the subject of which it treats." ATHEN BUN. LOVELL REEVE & CO., 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. |