Abstract
THE botanical survey of a country demands a good deal from the men who undertake it, and one source of confusion now apparent in the many and various attempts being made in many and various parts of the world is the different ideals set up by different workers as to what constitutes a botanical survey. The purpose of Mr. Praeger's well-printed but somewhat heavy book is to give records of the county distribution of plants in Ireland, and the task—probably a thankless one in proportion to the labour it must have cost—seems well done. To our thinking, however, the book is only rescued from being a very dry and bulky reference list by the attempt, in Section ii. of the introduction, to sketch in outline the botanical features of Ireland in terms of plant communities.
Irish Topographical Botany.
By R. L. Praeger. Pp. clxxxviii + 410. (Dublin: Hodges, 1901.)
Practical Text-book of Plant Physiology.
By D. T. Macdougal Pp. xiv + 352. (New York and London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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Irish Topographical Botany Practical Text-book of Plant Physiology . Nature 65, 53 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065053a0
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