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school children. It is divided into sections dealing with the

evolution of vegetation from tiny Trim:Wye plants to large trees. The last chapter in the history of British flora, which tells of the immigration of plants is by far the most entertaining. It is interesting to learn that the daisy, usually regarded as a typically, national flower, was a traveller from Central 'Europe, and that some of: our Scottish -mountain flora owe their ancestry to plants of the Ice Age. The book is illustrated with simple diagrams.