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* Senecio in New England.' — A. W. Evans, * Fossombronia salina.*-^ 

 B. L. Robinson, ' Gmiphaliam plantaginijolium Linn.' — M. L. Fer- 

 nald, * Xlonarda Jistiilosa.' 



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We have just received Part xx. of Dr. Braithwaite's British 

 Moss-Flora (London: 26, Endymion Road, Brixton Hill. Pp. 97- 

 128; tt. ciii-cviii. Price 6s.), and we observe with pleasure the 

 notice that three more parts will finish the work. The present 

 instalment contains descriptions of twenty-seven species, and 

 illustrations of thirty. It treats of the three remaining species 

 of WiipichostetiiiDii, and the sections Brachythecium (thirteen species) 

 and Pleuropits (three species), thus bringing us to the end of the 

 genus Hi/pniuti. Then follow four small genera — Lesquereiixia and 

 Isotheciiim with four and two species respectively, and Pterogonium 

 and Pterygijnandrum with one apiece. Camptothecium will be found 

 united with Homalothecium under the section Pleiiropus ; and in 

 Lesquereiixia , Liudberg's emendation of Lescuraa Br. et Sch., are 

 included Ptychodiiun and Pseudoleskea. 



Although not strictly a botanical book, the Practical Guide to 

 Garden Plants, which Mr. John Weathers has prepared and Messrs. 

 Longman have published in a handsome guinea volume, has more 

 claims to be so considered than most of its kind. The arrangement 

 of the descriptive portion of the work is systematic, the sequence of 

 the orders usual in British books being followed ; and the descriptions 

 themselves, so far as we have tested them, are accurate, and are 

 couched in language intelligible to any one of ordinary education. 

 Besides a full glossary and a sketch of the life-history of plants, 

 there are descriptions of flower, fruit, and vegetable gardens, useful 

 lists of plants grouped under different headings, plans for arrange- 

 ment, work, etc. — in fact, everything that the amateur gardener 

 needs. Except in the glossary, there are no illustrations — a fact 

 which we do not regard as altogether a drawback in these days 

 when popular books are loaded with indiscriminate and often un- 

 suitable figures. There is a good index of the plants described, 

 which makes up for any inconvenience that might be felt by those 

 unfamiliar with the systematic arrangement adopted. 



It may be noted that Kehles Parishes, by the veteran Anglican 

 novelist Miss Charlotte Yonge, published by Messrs. Macmillan in 

 1898, contains a long list (pp. 205-234) of the flowering plants of 

 Hursley and Otterbourne, the Hampshire parishes in question. 

 Miss Yonge has written about wild flowers before in Tlie Herb of 

 the Field, a pretty little book published anonymously in 1858. On 

 the present occasion it is much to be regretted that she did not 

 submit her list to some botanist for revision. The few names of 

 orders given seem to have been dropped in at random, so little do 



