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be considered an introduction, probably with grain ? I do not 

 remember to have seen this recorded as an ahen in Britain. It 

 occurs in Germany, Austria, the States to the east of Austria, 

 Eussia ; and in Scandinavia only in a sea-shore form {A. patuJah., 

 a. hololepis Ledeb. Fl. Ross. vol. in., p. 726). It is thus more an 

 eastern form than a western one. — Arthur Bennett. 



Plants of North Bucks. — About Fenny Stratford, while waiting 

 for a train, I noticed Hypericum diihium Leers, '*' Festuca Myuriis L., 

 Myriojjlujllum spicatum Jj.,'' Chenopodium hybridum L.,* Rubiis cory- 

 lifoHus Sm.,* Eosa senticosa Ach., pMhits rhamnifolim W. & N.* (or 

 rather the British form which we have been accastomed to name as 

 this), R. leucostachys Sm.,* Jasione montana L., Hieracium umhel- 

 latum L., Festuca rubra L.,* Arctium, viajus Schkr., Filago 

 minima L., Teucrium Scorodonia L., Atrijilex deltoidea Bab.,* A. 

 erectus Huds.," and Ornithopus perpusillus L. My walk extended to 

 Brickhill Wood. The asterisks denote what appear to be new 

 county records; the others are personal vouchers. — G. C. Bruce. 



EuPHORBLi EsuLA IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. — It may bc of iiitercst 

 to note what seems to be an unrecorded locality for Euphorbia Esula. 

 In 1887 I found it growing freely on the left bank of the Nen, near 

 Aldwinckle, Northamptonshire, and have observed it again this 

 year. It is evidently not a recent escape, and seems to be quite 

 established. There are no gardens near. — J. Sargeaunt. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



The Flora of Switzerland, for the use of Tourists and Field-botanists, 

 By A. Gremli. Translated from the fifth [German] edition 

 by Leonard W. Paitson. London : Nutt. 8vo, pp. xxiv. 

 454. Price 7s. 6d. 



English-speaking botanists have reason to be thankful to Mr. 

 Paitson for rendering accessible to them a work which has already 

 been translated into French, and of which four German editions, 

 extending to 6000 copies, have been disposed of. This fact alone 

 shows the estimation in which the book is held, and we shall be 

 surprised if its sale in its English form does not show, — if it has 

 not already shown, — the approval with which it has been hailed by 

 English botanists, many of whom made it their companion during 

 the holiday-time of the summer just ended. It is perhaps some- 

 what surprising that no English translation has previously been 

 issued, seeing that the book first appeared in 1874. If, as is 

 possible, the favourable reception which, faute de mieux, was ex- 

 tended to Mr. A. W. Bennett's translation of Dalla-Torre's 

 •Tourists' Guide,' noticed in this Journal for 1886 (p. 154), has 

 encouraged the publishers to bring out the present volume, that 

 irritating little work has a claim upon our gratitude to which its in- 

 trinsic merits do not entitle it. 



The plan of the work is very simple and sensible. After a brief 



