Mr. COOPER'S Flora Metropolitana is a very good book for
the young practical botanist, who is compelled to confine his scientific trips to the neighbourhood of London. It contains lists of all the plants that have been found by the author or his friends during three years' excursions amongst the heaths, woods, commons, hills, &c. that surround the Metropolis; with references to the botanical volumes in which the plants are described. The value of the book depends, of course, upon its practical utility; yet,. without rising from our stool, we have derived pleasure from it. The reader may remember how Dr. DAVY describes his brother turning to his Hy-book for relaxation, and feeling refreshed by in specting its stores: something analogous has been conjured up our minds by the Flora Metropolitana. As we turned over its pages, and caught the names of the pleasant places where the author has wandered in pursuing his calling, we were carried thitherward for a moment, and in fancy luxuriated in the charms- of green lanes, open fields, and wild woods.
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