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shire and OxforJshire, and the wx'iter has it also from Bucks, 

 Hants, Surrey, and Northamptonshire. 



E. cuRTA Fries {Nov. Fl. Suec. ed. 2, 198, as a variety); Fries, 

 Sainnia Ve;/. Scand. i. 195 (1840). Occurs in the Isle of Wight, 

 on Freshwater Downs and Catherine's Cliff; Moreton, Warwick- 

 shire, F. Tuwnsend ; and in Aberdeenshire, MarshalL 



E. LATiFOLiA Pursh, Fl. Am. SejJt. ii. 430, which is figured in 

 Flora Danica, n. 2910, is recorded from " Cumberland (if . Kern.) 

 [Taylor: H. Hofm.)," but no more precise statement of its occur- 

 rence in Britain is given. 



E. FouLAENSis Towns, in sched. is the form found by Mr. Beeby 

 in Foula, Unst, &c., in the Shetland group; it also occurs in the 

 Faroe Islands. 



E. GRACILIS Fries, Fl. Halland. 104 (1818) as a var. and as a 

 species in the Siiiitma Veg. Srand. i. 198 (1846). Throughout the 

 monograph Dr. Wettstein follows the continental school of nomen- 

 clature which tries to ensure the permanency of the trivial name. 

 The oldest name which should be accepted, according to our British 

 plan, is F. micrantha Keichb. Fl. Genn. E.vc. 358 (1831-2). This 

 plant is recorded for Aberdeen, Inverness, and Argyll, on the 

 authority of specimens from F. Townsend and Nicholson. The 

 writer has it from Ross, Perth, Oxford, and Berkshire. 



E. ScoTTiCA Wettstein = F. patndosa Towus. Journ. Bot. 161 

 (1891), not of R. Brown. This plant is only recorded from Braemar, 

 where it was originally found by Mr. F. Townsend growing in a 

 marshy place with sedges. It also occurs in Argyll and Westerness. 



E. RosTKo^^ANA Hayne, Arzn. ix. t. 7 (1823), is figured in Syme, 

 E. B. 991. It is given from Buxton, Derbyshire; Rosthwaite, Cum- 

 berland ; Oban, Argyll, by F. Townsend ; and for Caithness by Linton. 



E. Kerneri Wettstein in Engler & Prantl, Xat. Pjlanz. iv. 101 

 (1893), is given for Chelsham, Croydon, by Bennett. 



Several hybrids are described, but of these only one is recorded 

 from Britain, namely, F. Rostkoviana x nemorosa Towns. = E. 

 (jlanduliijera Wettst., which was found at Buxton by Mr. Townsend. 



There are fourteen plates, two of which are devoted to the 

 histology and morphology of the genus, four others contain nearly 

 500 figures of parts of the flower, calyx, and bracts, while the 

 remainder illustrate the various species from reproduced photographs 

 of herbarium specimens. Four charts show the geographical distri- 

 bution, &c., of some of the species of the genus. This work can be 

 cordially recommended to the systematist. 



G. Claridge Druce. 



A Manual of Botany. By J. Reynolds Gkeen, Sc. D., F.R.S., F.L.S. 

 Vol. II. — Classification and Physiology. London : J. & A. 

 Churchill. 1896. Pp. xi, 541. Price 10s. 



This second volume in every way confirms the opinion we 

 expressed of the first."'' It is very unequal, the part dealing with 

 physiology being immeasurably better than the part given up to 



* See Joiirn. Bot. 1895, 283. 



