248 NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 



Gordale species given intercurrently with physical geography 

 description in the first vokime of that work, just issued. — 

 F. Arnold Lees. 



Arum italicum, Mill., in Cornwall. — Mr. J. Ealfs, of 

 Penzance, has determined the Arum in several localities in 

 West Cornwall to be A. italicum. It grows in Love Lane, 

 close to Penzance ; at Trereife, by the road to the Land's End, 

 abundantly; and in three or four spots between Leland and 

 St. Ives. The ordinary species, A. maculatum, however, also 

 occurs ; but Mr. Ealfs has not been able to visit aU the 

 recorded stations, so as to trace the actual distribution of each 

 species ; he has not seen A. maculatum nearer Penzance than at 

 Marazion ; it also occurs near Helston and Truro. A. italicum 

 grows in more shady spots than A. maculatum. This is a very 

 interesting determination, and will necessitate a search throughout 

 the West of England. In Jersey and Guernsey, as stated in 

 * J. Bot.,' 1871, p. 200, A. italicum appears to be the only species ; 

 at least during my short visit the other species could not be 

 detected. — Henry Trimen. 



Carex digitata, L., in Derbyshire. — When describing Carex 

 ornithojjuda as a British plant (' J. Bot.,' 1875, p. 195), it was 

 mentioned that a specimen of C. digitata from Mansal Dale existed 

 in Sowerby's herbarium, but that the species had not been observed 

 in the county for many years. Mr. Whitehead now informs me 

 of its rediscovery this summer in the same Dale, by Messrs. 

 Percival and Rogers, and has kindly forwarded a specimen. 

 With reference to C. ornithopuda, it is stated in Messrs. Davis & Lees' 

 ' West Yorkshh'e' (i. p. 254) that this s^Decies was "known under 

 the name of digitata in Salt's time, seventy-five years ago," and 

 recently rediscovered. — Henry Trimen. 



Sxtract!5 antr Nottcts of ISoofes ^ iIErttto(rs5. 



REPORT OF THE HERBARIUM OF THE ROYAL 

 GARDENS, KEW, FOR 1877. 



By Sir J. D. Hooker, K.C.S.L, &c. 



The new building for the accommodation of the Herbarium 

 was completed in the autumn, and the collections moved in without 

 its being found necessary to close the building for use during even 

 a single day. In the old building the principal changes have been 

 the formation of two new libraries, about forty feet long, on the 

 first and second floors, by throwing together five smaller rooms in 

 each. This will allow the library to be re-arranged on the first 

 and second floors in a compact and accessible manner, instead of 



