20 AUGUST 1836, Page 18

The Botanist's IlIanual should he in every practitioner's hand, or

rather, in every practitioner's pocket. If it cannot be said to be a happy, it is a useful idea, neatly executed. It professes to contain a coniplete list of British flowering plants and ferns, divided into the Linnxan orders and classes, with blank lines for writing on opposite each name. Its object is to furnish the botanist with a companion in his excursions, in which he may jot down the place of growth of the specimens he gathers, with any brief remarks he has to make. This, as the preface suggests, may be done in pencil, and afterwards rewritten in ink ; and in this way, even the clumsy, if they are only careful, may accumulate a mass of facts, which will be pleasant in the gathering, and useful afterwards.