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France. — "Archives of the Museum of Natural History. Vol. VIII., Part 

 III." "Bulletin of the Geological Society of France. Part XII." 



Britain. — "Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. No. VI." "Annals 

 and Magazine of Natural History. No. C-CII." "Quarterly Journal of 

 Microscopical Science. No. XV." "Zoologist, Nos. CLXIL, CLXIII., 

 CLXIV." "Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. New 

 Series. Vol. III." "Note on Mr. Newman's Memorandum on the Wing- 

 rays of Insects." "Hooker's Journal of Botany, etc. Nos. LXXXVII- 

 LXXXIX." "Phytologist. New Series. Nos. XII-XIV." 



Index Filicum; a synopsis with characters of the Genera, and an enumera- 

 ation of the species of Ferns, with synonyms, references, etc. By Thos. 

 Moore, F.L.S., F.H.S., Author of the "Handbook of British Ferns," 

 "The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland, Nature-printed, etc.," and 

 Curator of the Chelsea Botanic Gardens. Part I., Price Is. London: 

 W. Pamplin, 45, Frith Street, Soho Square. 1857. 

 This work promises to supply, and well to supply, the acknowledged 



want of a complete catalogue, or as complete as may be, of those elegant 



plants whose study is at present so popular and fashionable, arranged 



according to the modern classification. 



The British Botanist's Field Book; a synopsis of the British Flowering- 

 Plants. By A. P. Childs, F.R.C.S. London: Longman, Brown, Green, 

 Longmans, and Roberts. 1857. 



This work is in a portable form, intended for the pocket of the botanist 

 abroad. It contains a short description of every British flowering Plant, 

 and is altogether well executed and neatly got up. The descriptions are 

 necessarily very brief, but for them to be otherwise could not consist with 

 the portableness of the book; as a pocket companion — a "vade mecum." 

 The work begins with a copious glossary of the terms used. 



CjjB torist. 



Mistletoe. — Your contributor, Mr. J. McTntosh, asks for information from 

 those who have seen this plant on the oak. The request induces me to 

 send the following 'note,' and append to it a 'query:' — "I never saw more 

 plentye of righte oke miscel, then Hugh Morgan shewed me in London. 

 It was sent to hym oute of Essex; where as there is more plentve then 

 in anye other place of Englande that I have been in." — Turner's Herbal, 

 1562. Is Mistletoe still abundant on the oak in Essex? — R. "Wilbraham 

 Falconer, Bath. 



