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ErocUum. There are references in it to the beautiful plates of the 

 author's folio ' Geraniologia,' which was published in 1787, 8, to 

 which well-known work it was no doubt intended to serve instead 

 of or preliminary to the full text, which was never published, but 

 remains still in MS. in the Candollean library. The ' Geranio- 

 logia Brevior ' also aj)pears to have been never published, and the 

 writer in the ' Hortus Kewensis ' used without doubt the copy 

 above referred to. It must always be remembered, in consulting 

 or quoting the ' Hortus Kewensis,' that the botanical matter of 

 both editions was entirely the work of the librarians of the Banksian 

 collections, successively Solander (who died in 1782), Dryander 

 till his death in 1810, and E. Brown. Hence in the first edition 

 much MS. and unpublished matter was incorporated. With 

 reference especially to L'Heritier, it is stated in the Preface (p. vi.) 

 that references are frequently made to his works " under plants 

 of which he has not yet XDublished either descriptions or figures ; 

 these are taken from communications this gentleman frequently 

 made, during the course of printing, of everything he had pre- 

 pared for the press" : the " Monographia de Geranio (not yet 

 published) " is also given in the list of books quoted, p. xxi. From 

 all this it is clear that those botanists are coiTect .who wiite 

 Erodium luoschatum, L'Herit. (in Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 1, vol. ii., 

 p. 414). — Henry Trimen. 



SiBTHORPiA EUROP^A. — I liave discovcred two new locahties for 

 Sihthorpia europcEa in Sussex. On August 21st, in company with 

 the Rev. E. N. Bloomfield, of Guestling, I found the plant in some 

 plenty at Heathfield ; also, more sparingly, at Dallington. This 

 extends the eastward range of this species in Sussex about six 

 miles, and carries it into a new drainage district, that of East 

 Rother. — J. H. A. Jenner. 



Notices of JSoolts antr i^emotvs. 



Forest Flora of British Burma. By S. Kurz. Calcutta. 1877. 2 vols. 

 Published by authority of the Government of India. 



Though dated last year, this has quite lately come to hand, 

 and must have been almost the last work of the late energetic 

 Curator of the Calcutta herbarium. The book forms a complete 

 descriptive Flora of the woody plants of our possessions in Burma, 

 — Chittagong, Prome, Martaban and Tenasserim, including the 

 Andaman Islands, — and is intended to enable forest-officers to 

 name the sx)ecies met with. With this view the clear and simple 

 plan of Bentham's Colonial Floras is followed ; there are keys to 

 orders, genera and species, short descriptions, and the arrange- 

 ment is that familiar to English students. The native names are 



