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seed, and are fixed quantities, not dependent on soil or situation, 

 whatever elassificatory term be applied to them. The following 

 numbers appear to be certainly endemic, from information supplied 

 by Mr. Dahlstedt : — 2, H. lim/Hlatum: 4, JI. Marshalli; 5, II. cJiry- 

 santhum (allied to a Norwegian form) ; G, H. centripetale ; 8, H. do- 

 vense ; 10, H. far reuse : 11, //. proxiiiuDn ; 14, //. scotivnm ; 15, H. 

 an<jxdnum : 16, H. rivale (allied to //. sai/ittalum, Ldbg., fide Dahl- 

 stedt); 20, H. pclrocharis." 



We are glad to learn that the Exchange Club for Mosses and 

 Hepatics, proposed in this Joui-nal for February (p. 88), is now an 

 accomplished fact. Those desirous of joining should communi- 

 cate with the Kev. C. H. Waddell, Saintfield Vicarage, Co. Down. 



Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot's Flora of Dnwfriessliire has made its 

 appearance ; we hope to notice it in an early issue. 



The issue of the Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information has appa- 

 rently been suspended, no number having been published since 

 that dated " February," but printed in March. 



The last part (May 15) of the Flora Brasiliensis is devoted to 

 the BiiinoniacetB, which have been elaborated by Prof. Bureau and 

 Dr. K. Schumann. 



James Lloyd, well known as the author of the Flore de I' Guest 

 lie la France, of which the first edition appeared in 1854 and the 

 last in 1886, died at Nantes on May lOtli, in his eighty- seventh year. 



We have received the first part of a folio work by M. T. Husnot, 

 entitled " Graminees," which is to be completed in four parts. It 

 will contain descriptions and figures of the cultivated and indige- 

 nous grasses of France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Great Britain, 

 with particulars of distribution, history, &c., and, judging from the 

 specimen before us, will be a useful addition to the literature of the 

 subject. 



Mr. Druce has issued a prospectus of his forthcoming Flora 

 of Berkshire, which will be published by the Clarendon Press, and 

 is " dedicated by special permission to Her Most Gracious Majesty 

 the Queen." " The work, which will extend to a volume of about 

 500 pages, is intended to be not only a catalogue, but a history 

 of the plants of the county. The various botanical writers since 

 1550 have been pretty exhaustively consulted, and no pains have 

 been spared in personally visiting nearly every parish in the county, 

 in order to make the work as complete as possible. In the Flora 

 about a thousand flowering plants and ferns will be enumerated, in 

 addition to a large number of varieties and plants of casual occur- 

 rence. In order to show their distribution through the county 

 more completely, Berkshire has been divided into five botanical 

 districts, which are based upon the river drainage. The plant dis- 

 tribution through these, and also through the border counties, will 

 be shown in a tabular form. Brief sketches of the topography, 

 the meteorology, the geology, river drainage, and the physiography 

 of the botanical districts will be given. The work will also include 

 short biographies of the various botanists who have investigated 

 Berkshire botany." 



