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A M" \t little volume by Mr. Forster Rohson^JVai/side Trees 

 and Sow to Know them — comes to us lY<>m Messrs. Thornton Butter- 

 worth (7*. 6d. n.). ''The trees are arranged according to the 

 general form of their leaves — an arrangement," says the author, 

 " very shocking to the botanist, hut materially helpful to the ordinary 

 man, 1 ' who must thus lie content to know trees only when the leaves 

 are expanded. The treatment of leaflet as equivalent to leaf leads to 

 odd combinations: thus, ''Trees with oblong leaves" are divided 

 into "leaf serrate: Rowan, True Service, Apple; leaf entire. Box, 

 Holm Oak." The book is fully illustrated by the author; thee. its 

 in the text are quite good, the plates please us less. The very 

 narrow margin gives the well-printed pages an ugly appearance, but 

 the volume is of convenient size for the pocket. 



Those who want a fuller and more satisfactory treatment of our 

 trees will do well to obtain from the S. P. C. K. the latest (eleventh) 

 edition of C. A. Johns's Forest Trees of Britain (Ids. n.) — a book 

 which, first published more than half-a-century ago, has been revised 

 bv Mr. Boulger, who performed a similar office for the same author's 

 Flowers of the Field. The present edition has plates taken by 

 photography in the natural colours : of the general accuracy of the 

 text there is no need to speak. The book is so good and must have 

 recouped its publishers so fully that we venture to suggest a resetting 

 for the next edition, and the substitution of better text-figures for 

 those which, excellent at the time they were first published, have 

 become somewhat obsolete in style. 



The Essex Naturalist (xix. pt. d: Oct. 1920-March 1921) contains 

 a long and interesting paper by Mr. Percy Thompson on " Another 

 Annotated Copy of Warner's Plantce Woodfordiensis " ; a paper 

 by t lie same author similarly annotated appeared in part 2 of the 

 same periodical (see Journ. Pot. 1920, 9.')). The copy was formerly 

 in the possession of Edward Forster, whose notes therein are trans- 

 cribed, and of whom a portrait, reproduced from the oil painting at 

 the Linnean Society, is given. In the same part Mr. Miller Christy 

 writes on "/Eneas Maclntyre, a Forgotten Essex Botanist," wdio will 

 form the subject of a future note. 



Mr. J. M. Black sends us copies of his " Additions to the Flora 

 of South Australia," reprinted from Trans. Koy. Soc. S. Australia, 

 xliv. (1920), in which are described and figured two new Acacias 

 {A. rlietinocarpa and A. prolifera) and a new Stipa (S. horrifolia) ; 

 and also a revision of the Australian Salicormce from the preceding 

 volume of the same Transactions. The name Salicornia australis 

 should be cited as of Bentham (Fl. Austral, v. 205) ; Solander's 

 name in Forster's Prodromus is, as Bentham points out, a nomen 

 nudum, and J. D. Hooker's citation for the name as of Banks and 

 Solander occurs in synonymy, and is hence not entitled to recognition. 

 It may be noted that the MS. description and figure to which 

 Hooker refers relate to the New Zealand plant; the volume of 

 Illustrations mentioned by Mr. Black is limited, as its title shows, 

 to Australian plants. 



