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A Glossary of Botanic Terms. By B. D. Jackson (Duckworth

and Co. 7s. 611. net.)—This excellent glossary, by the Secretary of the Litusean

Society, appears in a third and revised edition. The nomenclature of botany is so great a stumbling-block even to classical scholars that the humble amateur may be glad to know of this book.