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The Forget-me-not is now called M. Scorpioides, Linn., 

 by the editors, and it was the var. b of that aggregate species 

 in " Sp. PL" 1753. Suaeda is now replaced by Lerchia of 

 Haller, but it is possible that Haller's " Comm. Hort. Gott " 

 was pre-Linnean ; but since Linnaeus, in the second edition 

 of " Sp. PL," quotes Haller's LercJiea as a synonym, it may 

 date from that work, and therefore previous to the publica- 

 tion of Adanson's genus Dondia, which the writer suggested. 



In the " Manual " the genus is written Lerchia, not Lercliea. 



The genus Euphrasia, now containing, so far as Britain 

 is concerned, 1 3 species, 2 varieties, and 7 hybrids, is 

 succinctly described, but the Scottish forms of Rhinanthus, 

 R. monticola, R. borealis, and R. rusticulus, are not referred 

 to. The Hawkweeds occupy 36 pages, and have been 

 described by Miss R. F. Thompson, under the direction of 

 Mr. F. J. Hanbury, an appalling number of 97 species being 

 enumerated and a large number of varieties. The latter, 

 however, do not agree with those given in the " London 

 Catalogue," since the well-marked and widely-distributed 

 var. pelluddum of murorum (silv attaint] is unnoticed, and 

 H. cumbriense, which the writer re-found last year in West- 

 moreland, is also omitted, although it occupies the number 

 9 1 4 of the " London Catalogue." H. sdapJiiluni is separated 

 by seven species from H. vulgatum, surely an unnatural 

 severence, since most continental authorities treat it as a 

 variety of H. vulgatum. 



The Brambles as described by Prof. Babington are 

 given, but an Appendix reprinted from the " Handbook of 

 British Rubi," by the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, is also thought- 

 fully included. Happy is that botanist who can run down a 

 Hawkweed or a Bramble from description, even as carefully 

 drawn up as those included in the " Manual." Among the 

 points most interesting to Scottish botanists may be quoted 

 that the Rescobie Water Buttercup is now considered to be 

 a wholly submerged form of R. drouetii. R. scoticus is given 

 specific rank, but the editors pertinently suggest that it may 

 be a variety of R. flaunnula. CaltJia radicans is only given 

 for Rescobie ; but if that plant is correctly named, it occurs 

 in several Scottish localities, and the writer has also found it 

 in Wales at Llanberis. The new species and arrangement 

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