WE opened this little book with pleasure, hoping to find in it an addition to the too few popular manuals of botany, and the pleasure was increased by recognising at the end some familiar and ...

THE scope of this book is somewhat ambitious, for although it is limited to the requirements of intermediate examinations, it takes up in considerable detail the four main branches of botany.

Decades of searching uncovered the brilliantly illustrated plants and detailed notes made by a U.S. woman living in Cuba in the 1800s. Caesalpinia pulcherrima is a species of flowering shrub found in ...