Abstract
THE work under notice is the first volume of a useful text-book on the botany of Australian trees. Seven chapters are devoted to morphology, and deal with root, stem, leaf, flower, inflorescence, fruit and seed, and accessory organs. The technical terms are illustrated by examples taken from native trees and shrubs; and much information of a novel character is incidentally given. Thus attention is directed to the peculiar aerial roots of Melaleuca, the varied barks and two kinds of seeds of the Eucalypti, and the leafy organs of Acacia and Phyllocladus. The remarkable stages in the growth of leopard wood, Flindersia maculosa, are well shown in three photographs. This plant begins life as a thorny, almost leafless, wide-spreading shrub, and ends as a smooth, graceful tree with unarmed leafy branches.
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