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correctly determined, P. Friesii Rup. = P. pusillus major Fries = 

 P. mucronatus Auct. Yet Smith Las it under lucens, with a query, 

 in one book ; and under heterophyllus, "with a query, in another ! 

 Here is an example of how utterly untrustworthy these names are 

 without specimens. Smith's own herbarium gives no help or clue 

 to any of these plants. — Arthur Bennett. 



Potamogeton Tuckermani Eobbins (1868). — As our American 

 friends are much exercised respecting the earliest names their 

 plants ought to bear, it may be well to record that this species is 

 the P. confervoides of Reichenbach's ' Icones,' vol. 7, according to 

 Gay's herbarium at Kew. As Reickenbach describes it, I suppose 

 it must bear his name, which is certainly more appropriate than 

 most names are. — Arthur Bennett. 



Pringsheimia Rke. — The fact is not mentioned in the review of 

 Reinke's 'Atlas Deutscher Meeresalgen ' in your last number, and 

 appears to have escaped the notice of other algologists, that the 

 name Pringsheimia has already been appropriated by H. C. Wood 

 (' Contribution to the History of the Freshwater Alga? of North 

 America,' p. 195), for a genus of (Edogoniacas. If, therefore, 

 Reinke's genus is to be retained, some other name must be found 

 for it. — Alfred W. Bennett. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



The Flora of Suffolk; a Topographical Enumeration of the Plants 

 of the County, showing the Results of former Observations and 

 of the most recent Researches. By W. M. Hind, LL.D. 

 London : Gurney & Jackson. 8vo, pp. xxxiv. 508 ; map. 



An Account of the Flowering Plants, Ferns and Allies of Harleston 

 [Norfolk] . Compiled and edited by the Rev. Francis 

 William Galpin, M.A., F.L.S. London: Bartlett & Co. 

 8vo, pp. 157. 



The second of these volumes was prepared for the members of 

 the Harleston Botanical Club, to whom it is dedicated. It con- 

 tains certain features, such as " Hints to Collectors" and notes on 

 books dealing with British botany in general, which are not usual in 

 local floras, but which are likely to be useful to those for whom it is 

 specially intended. The introduction deals with local features, 

 climatic, geological and botanical. The enumeration of plants 

 makes no pretence to be critical, but gives an impression of care 

 and of accuracy in small matters ; while the clean typography and 

 careful printing prepossess one in favour of the book. The "ab- 

 breviations " employed to denote contributors and records are 

 needlessly puzzling. " WA," for example, stands for ' Withering's 

 Arrangement'; "DC," for 'A Catalogue of Plants found in 

 Dickleburgh ' ! and so on. The nomenclature has been to a great 

 extent brought up to date. A large portion of the six (not eight, as 

 stated by Dr. Hind) mile radius from Harleston, to the investiga- 

 tion of which the Botanical Club devotes itself, is in Suffolk; 



