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The Plant-lore and Cxarden-craft of Shakespeare. By the Kev. Henry 

 N. Ellacombe, M.A., Vicar of Bitton, Gloucestershire. 



Under this title Mr. Ellacombe has reprinted, with additions 

 and corrections, a very interesting series of papers which originally 

 appeared in the 'Garden' newspaper, and which well merited 

 publication in a collected form. The subject is not a new one : 

 a work bearing the title of ' Shakespere's Garden' was noticed in 

 the thu-d volume of this Journal ; but Mr. Ellacombe' s book is in 

 every way greatly m advance of his predecessor, and well deserves 

 a place on the shelves of both the student of Shakespeare and the 

 lover of plant-lore. A great deal of information in illustration of 

 Shakespeare's numerous references to plants is brought together, 

 with some remarks u^Don the cultivation of various sx^ecies which 

 are perhaps hardly in keeping with the general style of the book, 

 but which have a value of their own from the fact that Mr. Ella- 

 combe is well known as one of oui- most successful cultivators of 

 herbaceous plants. Here and there, there are traces of hurried 

 compilation, and the want of an index is a serious di'awback to the 

 usefulness of the volume, although the plants are arranged alpha- 

 betically ; but the book as a whole is very satisfactory. We should 

 j)erhaps mention that it is printed for the author, and can only be 

 obtained by direct application to him. J. B. 



Fascicles 77 and 78 of the ' Flora Brasiliensis ' have appeared, 

 dated respectively June and August, 1878. Ease. 77 contains the 

 IlaJfiesiaceiB [Apodanthes and Pilostyles), by Count Solms-Laubach, 

 with one plate ; and the Nymphaacem, by Caspary, with eleven 

 plates. The latter memoii* is treated with the careful elaboration 

 characteristic of its author. Ease. 78 consists of the CiicurbitacecB, 

 monographed by A. Cogniaux, of Brussels. This contains very 

 numerous new species, and is illustrated by thu'ty-eight excellent 

 I)lates. 



Dr. D. Moore, of Glasnevin, gives complete lists of the Mosses 

 and HejMticcc found in Counties Dublin and Wicklow, in the 

 * Scientific Proceedings of the Koyal Dublin Society.' 



The Freshwater Algce and Characece collected by Berggren in 

 the Sandwich Islands, in 1875, form the subject of a memou* by 

 Nordstedt, in the Transactions of the Physiographical Society 

 of Lund. Several new species are described and figured in the two 

 accompanying plates, including a new Xitella, N. havaiensis, Nordst. 



A chai^ter on the Botany of North Wales and list of its rare plants 

 is given by Mr. Britten in Jenkinson's ' Guide to North Wales.' 



Other New Books. — W. W. Spicer, ' Handbook of the Plants 

 of Tasmania.' J. Walsh & Sons, Hobart Town, 1878. — K. Hogg, 

 ' Herefordshire Pomona,' Part I. Hardwicke & Bogue, Piccadilly, 

 1878 (156.) — 0. KiRCHNER, ' Kryptogamen-Flora von Schlesien,' 

 Bd. 2, heft 1. AUja^, Breslau, 1878 (7 mk.) — H. Field & K. H. 



