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localities in books devoted to the English Flora ? Some of the 

 S. Hants localities printed are familiar, and have been already pub- 

 Hshed. Does restricted Ulex nanus occur there ? It is surely 

 U. Gallii that is the abundant heath plant. Prof. Babington 

 communicates a list of the distribution of the British species of 

 Ohara, as shown by specimens in his herbarium ; it must be 

 considered as but a small first instalment of what is known. The 

 latter part of the Keport is occupied by a summary of County dis- 

 tribution forming a sort of supplement to Watson's ' Topographical 

 Botany.' With the view of attempting to adhere to the spirit of 

 that work, it is stated that those County records only are entered 

 which have been vouched for by sj)ecimens sent either to Mr. Lees 

 of the Eecord Club, or to the Curator of the Exchange Club. 

 Some, however, seem to be admitted on the authority of MS. 

 Catalogues, and it is not easy to see in what respect such can be 

 considered as having claims to recognition superior to published 

 ones, all of which, except those of the Exchange Club, are 

 purposely ignored. This summary or supplement to ' Topographical 

 Botany ' is also issued and sold separately, and the separate copies 

 contain a list, not given in the Eeport, of some of the persons cited 

 in its pages ; it is noteworthy that they are there described as 

 " senders of specimens or other material." 



■ In the * Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Soc. of 

 Manchester' (Nov. 4, 1878), Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill gives an account 

 of the Flora of the Breidden Hills, Montgomeryshire. Over three 

 hundred s]oecies were observed in the summer of 1877, and a list of 

 the rarer ones is given. A form of Arahis hirsuta, considered to 

 approach "A. arcuata of Grenier and Godron, and A. alpestris, 

 Gor.," was observed; and Potentilla rupestris still occurs in almost 

 inaccessible spots near the waterfall. 



Me. E. J. Baillie gives in the 'Proceedings of the Chester 

 Society of Natural Science', Pt. 2, 1878, an interesting Cata- 

 logue of the plants found within the boundaries of the City of 

 Chester. But it seems a pity that the species of the specially 

 urban genera, Bumex, Atrijjlex and Chenopodium, should not have 

 been sufficiently examined to be included. 



New Books. — B. Verlot, ' Le Guide du botaniste herborisant,' 

 Ed. 2. (Bailhere, Paris, 1879.)— J. Scott, ' Manual of Opium 

 Husbandry.' (Calcutta, 1877.) — J. B. Hooker & J. Ball, 'Journal 

 of a tour in Morocco and the Great Atlas.' (Macmillan, 1879).— 

 P. G. LoRENTz, 'La Vegetacion del Nordeste de la Prov. de Entre- 

 Eios.' (Buenos Aires, 1878). 



Articles in Journals. — December, 1878. 



Botanische Zeitum/. — H. Bauke, ' On sexual generation in 

 Platijcermm, Li/(/ocliiau and Gijmnogramme' (continued). — 0. G. 

 Petersen, ' On the development of the stem in JSlesemhryantliemum.'' 

 — J. Borodin, ' On the physiological role and the distribution in 

 the vegetable kingdom of Asparagin.' 



