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T. pungens, and T. junceum, but T. Uttorale, Hort., T. pycantJmm, 

 Godr. is not British ? cf. Syme in E. B. and Warren in Jom-n. 

 Bot.) Lolium linicola, Send. (1844), is given for " Angl." under 

 the name of L. remotum, Schrk. baier fl. i. 382 (1789). It is 

 not a native of Britain. Festuca loliacea, Curt, (non Huds.) (?) is 

 given as a hybrid between Lolium j^erenne and Festuca elatior, and 

 as a subspecies of Lolium perenne. 



The systematic arrangement is followed by a table of the 

 species and subspecies in the various orders, the largest number of 

 species in one order being 1336, and 340 subspecies (under Com- 

 positae). The whole number of Dicotyledons is 7770 species, and 

 1743 subspecies. Of Monocotyledons 1625 species and 271 sub- 

 species, with a total for the whole of Europe of 9395 species and 

 2014 subspecies. An index of the orders, genera and subgenera, 

 only is given, but a complete index is promised as a supplement, 

 with additions, corrections, an account of the vascular cryptogams, 

 and an enumeration of Characae^e. Dr. Nyman is to be con- 

 gratulated on the successful termination of his work, which must 

 have been one that called for no ordinary patience and per- 

 severance, when it is considered the enormous number of publica- 

 tions, &c., that must have been consulted. It becomes, now, 

 almost the duty of those botanists in Europe, who take a special 

 interest in its Flora, to severally examine their herbaria and notes, 

 and send Dr. Nyman any additions, corrections, &c., that may 

 occur to them. Many interesting inquiries might be started on the 

 pecuharities of some species, especially the lines of distribution 

 they take from east to west, and vice versa. A. B. 



Tabula FihodologiccB Europao-Orientales locupletissimcB. Auctore 

 M. GrANDOGER. Paris, 1881. 



This is a volume of 317 pages, treating, by means of dichotomous 

 analyses, of 4266 " species " of roses arranged under the following 

 twelve genera : — Pdpartia (= Synstylece), BAirosa {= GallicancB)^ 

 Scheutzia (=: Cinnamomece), Laggeria [=^ Eglanterice), Cottetia 

 (= Pim-jjinellifoUcB), Bakeria {=Sabin(B), zanonia (= Alpints andi 

 MontancB), Crepinia (= Caninem), Chavinia (== Glandulosa), Chahertia 

 {=zRubiginosecE), Pugetia { = YiUos(E), all of Gandoger, and Hulthemia, 

 Dumort. The author terms these subgenera, but as he uses the 

 same specific names in several of them, and places their initial 

 letters before each species, he evidently intends them for genera. 

 The name Bakeria had been already applied to another genus, but 

 probably this is of little consequence, as it is hardly likely that 

 anyone, besides the author, will ever make use of his names. 

 About 70 per cent, of the " species" are here described for the 

 first time, and of the remainder a large proportion have been 

 described in the author's previous works. The characters given 

 in the tables are of the most trivial nature, and in the absence of 

 full descriptions are of course quite inadequate to distinguish 

 critical plants. Any fair-sized English rose-bush would, we think, 



