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In one handsome volume, 8vo. with nineteen Plates, cloth, 8s.
A Flora of Shropshire
By the Rev. W. A. LEIGHTON, B.A., F.B.S.E.
We cannot too strongly recommend it to the notice of our readers. For though as a local Flora, it professes to treat only of the plants of a single county, that county produces more than half the number of species of flowering plants indigenous to the Kingdom. The descriptions are unusually full and carefully drawn up. We have good ground for saying that the Flora of Shropshire should be in the hands of every one who feels interested in the botanical productions of the British Isles.—Phytologist.
We look upon the appearance of this work as being a great step in advance in the progress of British indigenous botany—for although it is professedly confined to the description of the plants of a single county, yet as clearly shewing the incorrectness of the idea “that a New Flora in the true sense or the term has become impossible,”—it is indispensable to every botanist who desires to obtain a thorough knowledge of our native plants.—Jardine’s Annals of Natural History.
Highly interesting work. The “Index to the Localities,” where each plant may be found in Shropshire, is very elaborate.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
We were struck with the very correct manner in which he (Mr. Leighton) has systematically arranged, the perspicuous accuracy with which he has described, and the discriminating tact with which he has distinguished all and every of our Salopian flowering herbs and trees; the whole interspersed frequently with their medicinal and chemical powers, ancient and modern customs, local anecdotes, scraps of poetry and fanciful illustrations. Works of this kind, though learned, are too often dry and monotonous; but as regards this, we may truly say to the botanist—indocti discant, et ament meminisse periti; and we may assure general readers of every description, particularly those of Shropshire, that, though lacking nothing of learning or science, Mr. Leighton has, with much taste and fancy, contrived to make his Flora “a perpetual flow of nectar’d sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns.”—News.
Carefully and critically executed.—Athenæum.
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