246 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



that an abstract or epitome of Sachs' Text-book were published. This, 

 with some modification in the arrangement of the subject, would be of 

 the greatest value to a very large number of persons, who would never 

 read the extended original, and bring modern Botany within the reach 

 of all. 



A word of commendation for the beauty and clearness of the typo- 

 graphy and general appearance of the book, which does great credit 

 to the University Press, must conclude this notice, H. T. 



Flora of Easthourne. Being an Introduction to the Flowering Plants, 

 Ferns, &c., of the Cuckmere District, East Sussex. With a map. 

 By P. C. S. Roper, P.L.S., &c. London : Yan Voorst, 1875 (8vo, 

 pp. 165). 

 The flourishing watering-place Eastbourne is situated in a very 

 favourable position for the prosecution of botanical investigations ; 

 besides a productive sea-shore there are extensive marsh lands, chalk 

 downs reaching 600 feet, a varied soil consequent on the outcrop of 

 the sands, clays, and gravels of the Greensand, Gault, and Wealden 

 bcries of rocks, and numerous wooded tracts. The !N'atural History 

 Society, of which the author is President, was founded only eight 

 years ago, in 1867, but has already published a series of " Proceed- 

 ings," to which we have more than once had occasion to refer, and 

 several preliminary lists of the Fauna and Flora of the district. In 

 the little volume before us Mr. Roper has provided visitors with a 

 well-planned and carefully-executed guide to the Phanerogamic Flora 

 of this part of Sussex brought up to present knowledge. 



The district included, of which a good map is prefixed to the 

 book, is that drained by the small river called the Cuckmere, and 

 forms one of the seven divisions into which Mr. Hemsley proposes 

 to divide the county; should his projected Flora of Sussex ever 

 see the light, the present book will therefore readily fall into its 

 place. The area is estimated at 160 square miles, and the number of 

 species given in the body of the Flora is 704, the nomenclature being 

 that of the 7th edition of the "London Catalogue," in which such 

 plants as Pohjgala oxyptera, Reich., Lotus tenuis. Kit., and Atriplex 

 triangularis, AVilld., get the benefit of a species-number. This is 

 not a large flora for a maritime district in the South of England, but 

 in explanation it must be said that the author has included only those 

 plants which have been certainly found within the last few years. 

 "With the exception of four species, indeed, specimens of all are iu 

 either his own or the late M. Borrer's herbarium, the latter being 

 very few in number. Other species which have been recorded by 

 various authorities for the district, but of which the author has not 

 seen specimens, are placed in an appendix and number 80, whilst 

 another appendix of 157 species (of which 50 are in the first list) 

 includes those which are recorded by Mr. Watson for his *' Edst 

 Sussex" county, in *' Topog. Bot.," but not included in this more 

 restricted Eastbourne Flora. 



There can be little doubt that a good many more plants remain to be 

 added to the list. Surely Potamogeton natans and P. pohjgonifoliuSj one 



