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aiKl about 110 hybrids ; in Betula the fruits as well as the leaves are 

 figured. In Rumew he places agrestis Fr., ohluaifolius Wallr., 

 divaricatus Fr. and sllDestris Wallr. under R. ohtusifoliuH L. In 

 Rolygonum P. tomentosum Schr. (emend. Kern.) = P. lapatliifollum 

 Ait. ; P. lapathifolium L. is doubtfully referred to P. nodosum Pers. ; 

 P. heteropliyllum Lindman is established ior P. aviculare L. p.p., and 

 under this there are five other names ; the Scandinavian form of 

 P. Raii Bab. is P. acadieuse Fernald. Under Atriplex Edmonston's 

 A. glahriusculiim supersedes A. Bahingtonii Woods. A. Jiastata L., 

 Wg. includes A. calotheca Fr., and A. hastifolium Salisb.=our 

 Jiastata : there is a new species — A. prc^cox Hiilphers. 



In Caryophyllaceae Lindman has Ccrastium suhtetrandrum Murb. 

 — a useful name for s])ecimens it has been difficult to associate with 

 tetrandrum on account of the length and direction of the capsules. 

 Alsine riihella is kept up ; Arenaria norvegica Gunn (1772) is 

 named A. ciliata L. var. humifusa (Wg.) Hartm. ; A. gothica is 

 retained as a species. To the ordinary British botanist it seems odd 

 to see Ceratopliyllum placed between Nupliar and Ranunculacece. 

 Under Ranunculus the outlined leaves might easily lead astray; 

 the Batrachian Ranunculi are under 7 species, divaricatus Schr. 

 being used for circinatus Sibth. In Cruciferce, CocJilearia has only 

 3 species — our common ones ; Radicula is used for Nasturtium ; 

 Draha (12 species) is monographed by Elisabeth Ekman. Saxifraga 

 has 15 species ; S. ccespitosa L. is referred to >S'. groBnlandica L. ; 

 this is perhaps strictly right, but the British grcenlandica of Ben 

 Lawers and Cwm Idwal is very different from the true ccespitosa of 

 the Arctic regions and Ben Avon. In Gratcegus we have 6 species, 

 two of them new— C. curvisepala and C. Palmstruchii. In Rubies 

 leaves are shown in black on a grey ground ; it is impossible to see what 

 useful purpose these can solve : let any one take a 13ramble from May 

 to Sept. and match the various leaves and compare the result with 

 the figures on p. 309. Of the 40 Rubi only one bears the name of a 

 British author. In Alchemilla we have 15 species with two pages 

 of figures of leaves : in Rosa 4 pages, with a table extending over six 

 pages shoAving the relations of the Swedish plants. In Trifolium, 

 of the 13 species there only two are not British. Gallitriclie has 

 5 species, stagnalis being retained ; Viola has 20 species, rupestris 

 being used for arenaria ; in the tricolor series are only two species. 

 Epilohium has 17 species, adnatum being used for tetragonum. 

 Oxycoccus quadripetalus Gilib. — a name which can hardly stand— is 

 used for Yacciuium, Oxycoccus L. Primula scntica Hook, is retained 

 as a full species. In 8tatice there are only two species — S. humilis 

 C. E. Salmon and S. rarifiora Drej. In Veronica^ spicata is given 

 (not hyhrida^, and judging from the leaf figured it is correctly 

 named. PJuphrasia has 9 species; Rhinanthus has R. minor Ehrh. 

 subsp. stenopliyllns Schur. ^cnd R. groenlandicus Chab. In YalerianUj 

 V. haltica V\e\\&\ = simplicifolia Led. 



In Gompositce we have Garduus and Girsium Hill, and 9 hybrids. 

 Taraxacum has a key of 13 pages to the 99 species. ILieracium (by 

 Dahlstedt) has 89 species, but grouped under some names are other 



