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not recorded for W. Perth in Top. Bot. Other " new records" for 

 the vice-county that he saw are Folygala oxyptera, Hierachun 

 aiiratuni Fr. (teste E. F. Linton), Lactuva muralis, Arctium minus 

 (the segregate), and Betula verrucosa, — all in the Callander neigh- 

 bourhood ; with Pohjrjonum maculatum by the Lake of Monteith, 

 In this my first visit to Scotland, I found myself favourably circum- 

 stanced for studying the Scottish Rubi throughout July, and in a 

 future number of this Journal I hope to be able to give some 

 account of the forms I saw. — W. Moyle Eogers. 



New Monbiouthshire Brambles. — This summer I have found in 

 open parts of Chepstow Park Wood Ruhns Leyayius Eogers, not 

 previously recorded for v.-c. 35. Another bramble from the same 

 locality, which I sent to Mr. Eogers for a name, is " R. Lintoni 

 Focke, a very interesting new county record." I also gathered this 

 spring a form of Erophila prcecox DC. in v.-c. 84 ; it was growing 

 in abundance on a turfy wall-top near Tidenham Chase. — W. A. 

 Shoolbred. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Synopsis der Mitteleuropdischen Flora. Von Paul Ascherson, Dr.M. 

 & Ph. Leipzig: Engelmann. 1896. (Band i. Lieferungen 

 1 and 2.) 



Professor Paul Ascherson, of Berlin, the learned author of the 

 classical Flora der Provinz Brandenburg, and of a vast number of 

 botanical papers dealing with very varied subjects, has, as his 

 friends knew, for many years been occupied in collecting, sifting, 

 and working out the materials for a flora of Central Europe. The 

 first-fruits of these continuous and almost life-long efforts have 

 just appeared in the shape of the two first parts of the Synopsis der 

 Mitteleuropdischen Flora. 



The Synopsis is to consist of three volumes, each of twelve 

 parts (or sixty sheets), and six parts or three double parts are to 

 be issued every year. The completion of the work may therefore 

 be expected about the year 1902. It comprises the floras of the 

 German Empire, Austro-Hungary including Bosnia and the Herze- 

 govina, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Poland, the 

 French and the Italian Alps, and Montenegro, thus considerably 

 exceeding the area of Koch's Synopsis Florce Germanica ct Helvetica, 

 which has hitherto been the one standard book for the floras of 

 Germany, Switzerland, and those provinces of Austria which as 

 long as 1866 formed part of the German Confederation. It is 

 intended to be a critical compendium of our present knowledge of 

 the floras of the area indicated, brought up in every respect to the 

 level of the best and most recent research. The author has the 

 advantage of knowing intimately a considerable portion of the 

 area from field work, and of personal relations with all the more 

 prominent botanists of the Continent. 



The Synopsis is confined to the Pteridophyta and Phanerogam^e, 

 the Thallophyta and Bryophyta of the area having recently been 



