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shire and West Norfolk, and in one locality in Huntingdonshire. 

 Specimens collected by Gr. E-. B.-W. in the original station and near 

 Mepal in 1896, were circulated in Charac. Brit. Exsicc. No. 59, as a 

 doubtful form of iV. Jiexilis var. nidijica. A further examination 

 has led us to regard it as a distinct variety, for which, in honour of 

 its discoverer, who did so much for the investigation of the aquatic 

 plants of the Fen country, we propose the name of 



Var. Frteri. Perspicue protandra. Antheridium multo majus 

 quam antheridium in typo, c. 800^ diametro. Verticilli fructificantes 

 capita densa plus minusve formantes. Radii secondarii ssepe mucro- 

 nati. Oogonia 660-745 /w longa, 550-610 yix lata, c. 500 /u crassa. 

 Oellulaj spirales 6-7 convolutiones exhibentes et versus apices multo 

 tumifacientes. Oospora 500-520 \x longa, 425-450 /u lata, 875 \x crassa, 

 fusca-rubra aut fusca-rubida aut p?ene nigra, 5-6 strias promulas 

 crassas exhibens sa^pe alis latis et conspicuis versus apicem. Membrana 

 crassima et semirigida. 



In stature and habit this variety resembles N, opaca rather than 

 N. fiexills. It is somewhat rigid and often much incrusted. A 

 similar plant was collected by Wahlstedt and b}^ Olsson in 1864, at 

 Lund in Sweden, and was distributed by the former in Nordstedt & 

 Wahlstedt's Charac. Skand. Exsicc. No. 10, under the name of 

 N. jiexilis f. nidijica incrustata. 



J. Groyes and G. R. Bullock- Webster. 



REVIEW. 



Gonijeroiis Trees jor Projit and Ornament : heinfj a concise descrip- 

 tion oj each species and variety, witli the most recently approved 

 nomenclature, list of synonyms^ and best methods oj' cultivation. 

 By A. D. Webster. Constable & Co., pp. xx, 298, 28 plates. 

 Price 21s. net. 



This is not the whole of Mr. Webster's title, as he has seen fit, 

 in somewhat archaic fashion, to set forth the subjects of half-a-dozen 

 of his chapters on the title-page. Although the preface starts oif 

 with the enormous cost of our British imports of timber, the main 

 subject of the book is the growth of ornamental conifers in this 

 country ; and the illustrations, excellent as they are, show onl}'' young 

 specimen trees. At the present period of paper-famine, a book has to 

 justif}^ its appearance : it should, one might say, *' meet a felt want"; 

 and we ai-e not sure either that there was need for '* a cheap, handy, 

 and concise popular guide to hardy Conifers as cultivated in this 

 country," or that (if such a want existed) Mr. Webster's book can be 

 said to meet it. The late Mr. Kent's Manual oj the Coniferce, 

 published for Messrs. Veitch, was, especially in its second edition, a 

 fairly adequate, satisfactory, and, for its size, inexpensive work, and 

 it is to be regretted that it should have gone out of print ; but at the 

 present time more interest certainly attaches to the possibilities of 

 the cultivation of a small number of species on a large scale for 

 profit than to the merel}'- aesthetic requirements of the pinetum ; nor 

 can the present work be considered "cheap" at a guinea. 



