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old elm stump (behind King's College) which was known to be 

 badly infected with the fungus. The fructifications appeared in 

 all probability during the second part of February, and were past 

 maturity in early March. Generally they were rather small. The 

 usual period for the fructification to appear is from May to 

 September, as reported by Buller. I have, however, recorded 

 fructifications in the Cambridge district as late as the middle of 

 November and now as early as February. The winter has of 

 course been mild in Cambridge. — S. Eeginald Price. 



REVIEWS. 



A Flora of Norfolk loith Papers on Climate, Soils, Physiography 

 and Plant Distribution, by Members of the Norfolk and 

 Norwich Naturalists' Society. Edited by W. A. Nicholson. 

 Demy 8vo, cloth, 214 pp. 2 maps. Price 6s. 



Mr. Kirby Trimmer's Flora of Norfolk was published in 

 1866 ; it was never a satisfactory book and has been for many 

 years out of print, and the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' 

 Society has done well to prepare a new one. Mr. W. A. Nichol- 

 son had for some years been collecting material for such a work, 

 and the Society acquired his MSS. which, " with much additional 

 information compiled from the work of botanists, resident and 

 non-resident," is now issued in a neat volume. 



The book, so far as one who is practically unacquainted with 

 the county is at liberty to express an opinion, is very carefully 

 done. The small (though clear) type employed enables the 

 volume to appear in a more pocketable form than is usual in 

 similar works, and there is an absence of the irrelevant matter 

 which sometimes finds its way into local floras ; space has been 

 saved, too, by a free but intelligent use of abbreviations. The 

 scattered records in this Journal and elsewhere seem to have 

 been carefully swept up. The four districts into which the county 

 was divided by Mumford in his list in "White's Directory— da,te 

 not stated — and adopted by the Society in 1869 is followed here ; 

 a brief account is given of their characteristics. The other 

 important matters indicated in the title are duly discussed at 

 reasonable length ; there has evidently been a commendable desire 

 not to be prolix or discursive. 



We regret, however, the absence of what has become a pro- 

 minent — sometimes too prominent — feature in our local floras — 

 some account of the history of the botany of the county and of 

 those who have taken part in its investigation. Such an account 

 adds not only to the value but to the interest of the book ; and 

 Norfolk has been so especially favoured by botanists that the 

 omission is the more to be regretted : J. E. Smith, W. J. Hooker, 

 Dawson Turner, among illustrious names ; Pitchford and Crowe 

 among those who grew and studied Willows, as was fashionable 

 in botanical circles towards the end of the eighteenth century. A 

 glance through the Biographical Index of Botanists will reveal 



