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Aspleniinn Trichoinanes, L., var. anceps. '' Garden examples, the roots 

 originally from South- West Surrey, in lanes about Churt and Bowler 

 Green. This is scarcely other than an enlarged form of Trichomanes, 

 although it seeais inseparable from the Asplenium anceps of Madeira and 

 other Atlantic islands. The great brittleness of the stipes prevented 

 the attachment of the lal)els to the specimens." — H. C. Watson. 



Ghara alopecarioides, Dei. " This plant is not to be found in the 

 ' Saltpans,' properly so called, at Newtown, Isle of Wight. It grows 

 only in the large reservoir into which the sea flows, and from which 

 the water is admitted or pumped into the ' pans.' The ' pans ' are 

 completely dried up during the early spring and in the late autumn, 

 and from their nature I do not think it possible that the Charu could 

 STOW in them." — Fred. Stratton. 



J. BOSWELL SYME. 



June loth, 1870. 



Sldi) public atbns. 



Alpine Flowers for English Gardens. By W. Robinson, F.L.S. 

 London: Murray. 1870. (Pp. 392.) 



There is no apology necessary for noticing this excellent book ; 

 though it does not profess to be a botanical treatise in the strict sense, 

 yet the information it contains is, as far as it goes, scientifically good, 

 as well as practically useful. The object of the author is to show that 

 the cultivation of " Alpines " is not surrounded with any very great 

 difficulty, if cultivators will abandon the notion of so-called "rock- 

 works," and endeavour to place the plants in a situation like their 

 native habitats, plenty of soil and moisture being necessities of their 

 existence. About a hundred pages are occupied with general prin- 

 ciples of cultivation and details of what to avoid. The success of the 

 system advocated by Mr. Robinson is shown by its results, which can 

 be, to some extent, judged of from the woodcuts with which his book 

 is illustrated. Some of these have been reduced from photographs, 



under discussion, which indeed is likely enough to be found in botli the counties 

 given by Hudson. Hudson's later views cannot affect tlic undoubted claim of 

 the name A. setacea, Huds. ed. 1, to priority over A. uliyinosa, Wcihe. — H. 

 Teimen. 



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