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on the top of the rampant-wall [rampart-wall ?] of the garrison at 

 Heugh Town." 



Mr. Pigott's " little book does not profess to be a book of 

 scientific botany, or even a complete list of all the plants to be 

 found in the neighbourhood of Cromer." This is just as well, for 

 it certainly has no claims to be so regarded. It is in the usual 

 style of popular books about wild flowers — full of poetry (not 

 always correctly cited) and moralisings and (mostly second-hand) 

 quotations from old books, with a dash of Mr. Grant Allen, whose 

 method of " accounting for" the colours of flowers and the forms 

 of leaves seems to be accepted by Mr. Pigott with implicit con- 

 fidence. Some of the Latin (or as the author styles them 

 " generic ") names, which are relegated to the margin, are some- 

 what iinfamiliar to our eyes — such as Saxifraya muralis (the 

 English synonym of which, "the Nine-leaved Saxifrage," is also 

 strange to us) and Ihcmex dioecious. 



Mr, Geldart's paper is an enumeration, without localities, of the 

 plants of the county, so far as known up to the summer of 1883, 

 prefaced by a short but interesting introduction. The Mosses, 

 Hepatics, Lichens, and Algfe are included, the lists of these being 

 due, wholly or in part, to Miss A. M. Barnard. Each of these is 

 furnished with what it is customary to call an " English name," 

 except the seaweeds, which for some reason escape. It would be 

 interesting to know whether any one in real life ever spoke of the 

 "blunt pear-shaped beardless moss" or the "scurfy imbricated 

 parmelia " or the " papillary pycnothelia; " and it would be further 

 of interest to know whether such names are considered by any 

 sane person to be easier to speak and to remember than the 

 scientific titles. 



Eppiug Forest. By Edwakd North Buxton, Verderur. London : 

 Stanford. Ed. ii. 8vo, pp. xii. 139. 2s. 



Walks in Kpping Forest. Edited by Percy Lindley. London : 

 123-125, Fleet Street. Long 8vo, pp. 117. 6d. 



The value of Epping Forest as a hunting-ground for London 

 naturalists, coupled with its recent preservation to the public and 

 its careful exploration by the Essex Field Club, have all tended to 

 make it one of the most popular of London resorts ; and to this 

 popularity we owe the two handbooks named above. 



Mr. E.N. Buxton's is the more generally useful of the two, 

 and has systematic lists of the Fauna and Flora — the former 

 exquisitely illustrated, the latter more especially concerning us. 

 This owes its value chiefly to Mr. G. S. Boulger, recently president 

 of the Essex Field Club, and the Messrs. Ware, of Tottenham, so 

 far as the phanerogams are concerned ; there are also lists of the 

 fungi and mosses, mainly the work of Mr. James English. The 

 sentence preceding the list of fungi is a little puzzling: — "The 

 real plant proper, or Mycelium, dives underground, and may live 

 for years in that condition Avithout producing its fungi, which are 

 analogous to the flower or fruit of a plant." As Mr. Buxton is 



