(1) An Introduction to Plant Geography (2) The Living Plant: A Description and Interpretation of Its Functions and Structure (3) Flowerless Plants: How and Where they Grow (4) School and Home Gardens (5) Agronomy: A Course in Practical Gardening for High Schools (6) Das botanische Praktikum (7) Paläobotanisches Praktikum (8) Die palacobotanische Literatur (9) Icones of the Plants of Formosa, and Materials for a Flora of the Island, based on a Study of the Collections of the Botanical Survey of the Government of Formosa

Abstract

(1) THE compiler of this introduction to plant J_ geography appears to be somewhat out of touch with the modern development of the subject from the ecological point of view. The work is apparently intended for school use, but one would have thought that the best method of approach would be to deal at some length with the conditions of plant life in general, instead of devoting to this subject only twenty pages towards the end of the book as the author has done, and to lay stress on the idea of plant communities rather than to plunge, after a brief glance at a few types of British vegetation, into the descriptions of the “main vegetations of the globe,” which form the greater part of the book. However, these descriptions, though extremely condensed, are thoroughly readable and vivid, but it is very doubtful whether the author's method of treatment is calculated to give the subject of plant geography much educational value in a school curriculum. Many of the illustrations are extremely poor. However, we may perhaps hope for a more adequate and better illustrated treatment of the subject in the more advanced book promised in the preface.

(1) An Introduction to Plant Geography.

By Dr. M. E. Hardy. Pp. 192 + 66 figures. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913.) Price 2s. 6d.

(2) The Living Plant: A Description and Interpretation of Its Functions and Structure.

By Prof. W. F. Ganong. Pp. xii + 478 + 178 figures. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd.; New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1913.) Price 15s. net.

(3) Flowerless Plants: How and Where they Grow.

By S. Leonard Bastin. Pp. xi + 152 + 64 plates. (London Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1913.) Price 6s. net.

(4) School and Home Gardens.

By W. H. D. Meier. Pp. xvi + 319 + 159 figures. (Boston and London: Ginn and Co., n.d.) Price 4s.

(5) Agronomy: A Course in Practical Gardening for High Schools.

By W. N. Clute. Pp. xvi + 296 + 195 figures. (Boston and London. Ginn and Co., n.d.) Price 4s. 6d.

(6) Das botanische Praktikum.

Fnfte Auflage. By the late Dr. E. Strasburger and Dr. M. Koernieke. Pp. xxvi + 860 + 246 figures. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1913.) Price 24 marks.

(7) Palobotanisches Praktikum.

By Prof. H. Potoni Dr. W. Gothan. Pp. viii + 152 + 14 figures. (Berlin: Gebrder Borntraeger, 1913.) Price 4 marks.

(8) Die palacobotanische Literatur.

By W. J. Jongmans. Dritter Band: Die Erscheinungen der Jahre 1910 und 1911 und Nachtrge fr 1909. Pp. 569. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1913.) Price 26 marks.

(9) Icones of the Plants of Formosa, and Materials for a Flora of the Island, based on a Study of the Collections of the Botanical Survey of the Government of Formosa.

By B. Hayata. Fasc. ii. Pp. 156 + 40 plates. (Taihoku: Bureau of Productive Industries, 1912.)