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1912 at Quintrell Downs, near Newquay, and Penhallow Moor, 

 St. Newlyn East ; both v.-c. 1. It is probably common in Corn- 

 wall. — Spergularia atheniensis Aschers. Plants from Par, v.-c. 2, 

 which I sent to the Bot. Exch. Club as S. rubra, with a note 

 expressing doubt, have been named as above by Mr. Druce. A 

 specimen was given me by Mr. A. O. Hume in 1901 as " S. rubra ?" 

 This is apparently the first record for Great Britain. The status 

 of most plants at Par is more or less doubtful, but I consider this 

 is as native as Linaria supina.* — Malva syhestris L. var. acuti- 

 loba Relak. Par, 1912. — Trifolium repens L. var. phyllanilium 

 Seringe. Par, 1912. — Erica cinerea L. var. splenclens mihi. A 

 striking form of E, cinerea L. with long densely-flowered racemes, 

 and often with large and pale flowers — found at Carnon Croft 

 (F. H. D.) and Kea Down (G. C. D.), both in Kea parish, and at 

 St. Newlyn East Downs (C. C. V.) ; all v.-c. 1 — I have ventured 

 to name as above. — Plantago Timbali Jord. Miss Cardew and 

 Mr. E. G. Baker have lately thus determined plants which I sent 

 in 1910 to the Bot. Exch. Club as P. lanceolata L. forma. Mr. 

 Baker tells me they have seen no other British specimen of the 

 true plant. I doubt it being a native of Par, where I collected it. 

 — Chambre C. Vigurs. 



Senecio squalidus L. — On May 22 I saw this in some quantity 

 on the left hand of the line going from "Oxbridge Road to Worm- 

 wood Scrubs, not far from the former station. Further on Lepi- 

 clium Draba occurred also in some quantity. — James Britten. 



REVIEWS. 



Herbals, their Origin and Evolution : a Chapter in the History of 

 Botany, 1470-1670. By Agnes Arber (Mrs. E. A. Newell 

 Arber), D.Sc, F.L.S., Fellow of Newnham College, Cam- 

 bridge, and of University College, London. Cambridge 

 University Press. Royal 8vo, pp. xviii + 254. With frontis- 

 piece, 21 plates, and 113 text-figures. Price 10s. 6cZ. net. 

 In this Journal for 1910 (p. 112) we noticed at some length 

 The Craftsman's Plant-Book— a, collection of figures of plants from 

 sixteenth-century herbals arranged for the use of the decorator by 

 Mr. R. G. Hatton. What Mr. Hatton thus did— and did well — 

 for the artist, Mrs. Arber has done for the botanist, and not for 

 him alone, but for all who are interested in our early scientific 

 literature, and more especially in the history of the development 

 of science and art. 



We do not think a book on Herbals could have been better 

 done, and the only point on which we differ from the author is the 

 statement in the first sentence of the preface that the work " calls 



[ * But is L. supina certainly native ? and can a plant given under a doubtful 

 name and not published be considered a "first record"? — Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



