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scientific information, to publish facts, or legitimate inferences from 
facts, and to avoid all needless disputes, personal squabbles, sectarian 
peculiarities, and the like.” The work is intended to be devoted to 
the investigation of British plants, and, like the former series, to be 
the medium of supplying the botanist with a record of the progress of 
British botany. “As an essential and attractive feature of the new 
series of the ‘ Phytologist,’ arrangements have been made for supply- 
ing with every number one sheet, or half a sheet at least, of descriptive 
British Botany, with distinct, independent pagination, which, when 
completed, will form a portable Flora.” 
The articles in the two numbers before us are—1. An Account of 
the Localities of some of the rarer British Plants and others noticed 
in North Wales by Mr. Pamplin and Mr. Irvine, in September, 1854. 
2. On Popular Names of Plants; where that of “Waybred” (Plantago 
major) is discussed. 3. On the Statistics of the Order Ranunculacee 
(British species). 4. Botanical Notes from South Devon, by T. W. 
Gissing. 5. On the Wimbledon Station of Anemone apennina, 6. À 
Catalogue of certain Plants growing Wild, chiefly in the environs of 
Settle, in Yorkshire, observed by W. Curtis in 1782. 7. Reviews. 8. 
Notices of the Linnæan Society. 9. Botanical Notes, Notices, and 
Queries. 10. Notes to Correspondents. 11. Books received for Re- 
view. The ‘British Botany’ occupies eight pages in each number, 
and seems to be carefully and satisfactorily done. We know not why, 
but the names of the editors of the work are sedulously suppressed, 
which we regret, for we see no reason for such concealment, and it is 
attended with this inconvenience, viz. that in the case of a new plant 
being described, or a supposed new one, “ R. confusus, Nob." for ex- 
. ample, at page 8 (of the Aguatilis or Batrachiwm group), it would be 
. impossible, in any future work on British plants, to give the true au- 
_ thors the credit, or otherwise, of such a species. The work is printed 
on excellent paper with good type by J. E. Taylor, and the neat cover 
bears no less than three mottoes or inscriptions, in as many languages, 
mot in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, but in (we presume) Welsh, and 
. Greek, and Latin; the first is so enigmatical and unintelligible to us, 
= that we shall be thankful if the editors will devote half a page in ex- 
. plaining it in-some future number. A woodcut, of probably a Dian- 
.— thus, is encircled by a sentence, of which the words are so placed that 
_ the uninitiated, as in a round-robin, cannot tell which is first and which 
