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DiDissANDRA sESQuiFOLiA Clarke. China. Ic. PI. 1797. 

 DiDYMOC-^RPUS sTENANTiius Clarke. China. Ic. PI. 1799. 

 DiPLospoRA FRUTicosA Hcmsl. China. J. L. Soc. xxiii. 383. 

 DoREMA sERRATUM Altch. d Henisl. Afghanistan. Trans. L. Soc. 



iii. 70, t. 28. 

 Engelhardtia nudiflora Hook. f. Penang. Ic. PL 1747. 

 Ephedra sarcocarpa Aitch. <& Hemsl. Afghanistan. Trans. L. Soc. 



iii. 112, t. 47. 

 Epidendrum auriculigerum Rchb. f. Gard. Chron. iv. 34. 

 Eremostachys persimilis and E. Regeliana Aitch. S Hemsl. Af- 

 ghanistan. Trans. L. Soc. iii. 98, 99. 

 Eria striolata Rchh.f. Papua. Gard. Chron. iii. 554. 

 Erigeron setiferum Post. Asia Minor. J. L. Soc. xxiv. 433. 

 Esmeralda bella Rchh.f. Gard. Chron. iii. 136. 

 EuoNYMus MACROcARPus Gamble [Oliv.'] . Bhotan. Ic. PL 1763. 

 "Faberia (Compositae, Cichoriaceae) sinensis Hemsl. China. J. L. 



Soc. xxiii. 479. 

 Ferula Amani Post. Asia Minor. J. L. Soc. xxiv. 429. — F. 



suA\^0LENs Aitch. d- Hemsl. Afghanistan. Trans. L. Soc. iii. 



69, tt. 20, 21. 

 Ferulago auranitica and F. Blancheana Post. Asia Minor. J. L. 



Soc. xxiv. 430. 

 Ficus Canoni xV. E. Br. Society Islands. Gard. Chron. iii. 9. 

 (To be continued.) 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



The Folk-lore of Plants. By T. F. Thiselton Dyer. London : 

 Chatto & Windus. 1889. 8vo, pp. 328. Price 6s. 



The Eev. T. F. T. Dyer, who has been confused, in various 

 newspaper notices of this book, with his better-known brother the 

 Director of Kew Gardens, has for many years been engaged in the 

 compilation of volumes and papers dealing with different aspects 

 of folk-lore. Nothing is easier than this kind of work : there is 

 an abundance of material ready to hand, and the slightest literary 

 skill is sufficient to dress it up in a fashion suited to the popular 

 taste. 



There is so much folk-lore connected with plants, extending 

 over so wide a period of time and associated with so many objects, 

 and the interest taken in flowers in this country is so general, that 

 it is not to be wondered at that many books have been compiled on 

 the subject. Papers in reviews, magazines and newspapers have 

 been legion ; and as each succeeding writer lays under contribu- 

 tion all the book-makers who have preceded him, it is obvious that 

 the task becomes easier each time it is undertaken. The Rev. H. 

 Friend's ' Flowers and Flower-lore,' noticed at some length in 

 these pages,* and Mr. Richard Folkard's ' Plant Legends and 

 Lyrics,' t both of which appeared in 1884, are prototypes of 



* Journ. Bot. 1884, 157. t lb. 1885, 59. 



