26 NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 



tiviwn, L., has "Angl. mer. (Hants)," instead of "Angl. mer. (r)" 

 (now that it has been found in Devon and Cornwall). P. liturale, 

 Lk., is made a species. England is not allowed to have Kuphorbia 

 pilosa, L., the Bath plant being placed under E. palustris, L. 

 Parletaria erecta, M. K., and P. difiisa, M. K., appear as distinct 

 species, with the latter only as British. Querciis has 24 species, 

 Q. pedituculata , Ehrh., and Q. sessilijiora, Slsb., counting as two. 

 In Salix, perhaps the most noticeable thing is the great number of 

 forms regarded as hybrids, including ;S'. viridis, Fr. (held to be 

 synonymous with S. EusseUiana, Sm.), 8. undulata, JEhrh., and 

 S. ambiijua, Ehrh. In Betula, B. verrucosa, Ehrh., and B. puhescens, 

 Ehrh., are ranked as species, with B. glutinosa, Wallr., as a 

 synonym of the latter. 



Our naturalised and semi-naturalised plants and "excluded 

 species " are often rightly so recorded, or (perhaps oftener) altogether 

 omitted for this country; but we are unfortunately credited 

 wrongly with having as natives the following species : — Cuscuta 

 Epilinum, Weihe, "Brit." C. europcBa, Murr., " Scot." (in addition 

 to "Angl." rightly). C. TrifolU, Bab., "Angl." C. planijiora, 

 Ten., var. G. a2:)proximata, JBab., "Angl." C. suaveolens, Ser. 

 (C. hassiaca,Vi.), "Angl. Anchusa sempervirens, L., "Angl. (r) " 

 (after "Hibern. inquil. (r)," rightly. A. officinalis, L., "Scot, (rr), 

 Angl. (r)." Verhasciim Blattaria, L., "Angl. mer. (r)" (F. vir(jatum, 

 With., having "Angl." also; probably rightly, notwithstanding its 

 exclusion from ' Tox30grapliical Botany "). Scrojjhidaria verualis, L., 

 "Angl." Phelipcea ramosa, C. A. Mey., "Angl. (r)." Stachijs 

 armiia, L., "Angl. (Kent)." Leonurus Cardiaca, L., "Angl., 

 Scot." Euphorbia Lathyris, L., "Angl." 



Two or three instances have been give above incidentally of 

 more or less inaccurate reporting of some of our rarer species. 

 To these must be added the following : — Lithospermum purpureo- 

 cmrideum, L., should have "Angl. occ. or.," instead of "Angl. 

 occ. mer." ; and Sibthorjna europa;a, L., " Angl. mer.-occ," in 

 addition to "Angl. mer." So in the case of Scropkularia Scorodonia, 

 L., "Angl. mer." is wrongly added to "Angl. mer.-occ." and 

 "Hibern. (r)"; while under Trixago viscosa, Stev., "mer." should 

 be added to "Angl. occ." Stachys germanica, L., should have 

 " Angl. (Hants, Kent, Oxf.)," instead of" (Oxfordsh., Bedfordsh.)" ; 

 in ' Topogr. Bot.,' Beds is said to need verification. Paimex 

 conspersus, Hartm, has "Angl. (Kinross-sh.)," instead of " Scot, (r)," 

 its counties (already known) being Kinross, Fife, and Perth. 



There is one instance, Atriplcx Uttoralis, L. (and apparently 

 only this one), where a British plant is not recorded as such. The 

 Channel Islands are regarded (as of course they ought to be for 

 botanical purposes) as part of Western France. Russia appears to 

 have more species peculiar to it than all the other European 

 countries put together, a circumstance due no doubt to peculiarity 

 of soil and climate even more than to its immense area. Thus in 

 the one order Chenopodiacea no less than 32 (or 33) European 

 species are found only in Russia. On the other hand, there seem 

 to be only G species in this thnd Part which are known to occur in 



