and outstanding colour plates showing, separately, habit and habitat and a close-up of the flowers.Cheek identified a number of "[m]inor errors" in the text, including the species keys and glossary, but wrote that "we must not be over critical".

The photos are true to color, sharply printed, and for the most part show what they are intended to.Schnell suggested that some of the book's smaller images would benefit from enlargement, finding certain morphological details difficult to discern.

More serious criticism was levelled at the inclusion of numerous informally named taxa and at Lowrie's reliance on original descriptions (without examination of type material) in making certain taxonomic determinations, particularly with respect to the confused D. omissa.

The works of Erickson and Marchant & George must now be considered completely out-of-date.Barry Rice gave a positive appraisal of the third volume in the September 1999 issue of the CPN, writing: "If you are interested at all in Australian carnivorous plants you should buy this book!".

The addition of microphotographs is welcome.Rice wrote that the range maps "are fine, although not particularly detailed" and considered the alphabetical arrangement of species, which differed from the first two volumes, "inconvenient" at times.