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CLXXVI. POLYSTIGMA, P. 



869. Ruhruin, T. Kinm)ull, Slohliall. 



870. Fulvuni, D. C. Rannoch. 



CLXXVII. DOTHIDEA, Fr. 



87 1. Ulmi, Yv. Dupplin, Scone Den. 



872. Podagrarite, Fr. Common. 

 ^JT,. Junci, Fr. Killin. 



874. Graminis, Fr. Dupplin, Kinnoull, &c. 



875. Johnstoni, B. and Br. Bonhard. 



876. Pteridis, Fr. Rannoch. 



877. Tetraspora, B. and Br. Scone. 



878. Filicina, Fr. Not uncommon. 



{To he continued.) 



NOTICES or NEW BOOKS. 



An Elementary Text-Book of Botany. Translated from the German of 

 Dr K. Pranil. The translation revised by Dr S. H. Vines. London : W. 

 Swan, Sonnenschein, & Allen. 18S0. 8vo. Pp. vii and 332. ^Vith 275 

 Woodcuts. 



"This book was written by Prof. Prantl to meet a growing demand for a 

 work on Botany, which, while less voluminous than the well-known ' Lehr- 

 buch ' of Prof. Sachs, should resemble it in its mode of treatment of the 

 subject, and should serve as an introduction to it. That it has not failed in 

 this object is shown by the fact of its having already reached a third edition. 

 It is hoped that this English edition will as adequately supply the want of 

 a work of this kind, which has long been felt in this country." — Preface to 

 the English edition, p. 10. 



We do not think we are mistaken in believing that this work will take the 

 place that Dr Vines (who has furnished an excellent translation) claims for 

 it. Sachs's standard book in its English translation is too well knoMu to 

 make a sketch of the work under review necessary ; and though it is not 

 faultless, we can recommend it with all sincerity. Exception may be taken 

 to the fact that the theory that lichens are fungi parasitic upon algtie is given 

 as proved. We notice also that Sachs's figure of the hymenium oi Agaricns 

 cainpestris, showing the basidia furnished with two sterigmata only, is repro- 

 duced, though Mr W. G. Smith has shown in this magazine and elsewhere 

 that they have the more usual four sterigmata. 



Charles Waterton. By James Simson. Edinburgh : Maclachlan & 

 Stewart. 1S80. 8vo. Pp. 40. 



As the author places on the title-page the well-known lines, " nothing ex- 

 tenuate, nor set down aught in malice," we cannot imngine for a moment 

 but that he wishes to give a calm estimate of Waterton as a man and as a 

 naturalist. His estimate of Waterton is not favourable ; but as the latter 

 died in 1859, and his qualifications as a naturalist were gauged long before 

 that date, we can congratulate Mr Simson neither upon his choice of a sub- 

 ject nor upon the manner in which he has handled it. 



