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specimens of the var. e7-ostris from Eillingtou, E. Yorkshire, 

 gathered by Mr. G. Webster in 1889 and 1890. According to 

 Mr. Dunn's divisions, some of these specimens would represent 

 two varieties on one plant. Babington [Man. Brit. Hot. ed. 1, 176, 

 1843) named H. Balbini " H. (jlahra L. var. Balhisii 15ab." His 

 preface is dated May 1st ; will this take precedence of Godron's 

 name ? — Arthur Bennett. 



Varieties of Hypochceris glabra L. (p. 476). — Mr. Dunn seems 

 to have brought to light a new variety of this species, in what he 

 proposes to call var. nana, since in the branched rootstock and the 

 fruits all truncate, bearing pappus destitute of woolly hairs, there 

 are two if not three good distinguishing features. The plant should 

 be cultivated side by side with the usual form of H. (jlahra (one 

 would be glad to know which of the names given under 2 a fits 

 our usual plant) on light unenriched soil, to determine which of 

 the seven or eiglit characters given are permanent distinguishing 

 features. I have gathered specimens that answer to the description 

 at Mudeford, S. Hants, and also near Thetford ; but the Thetford 

 specimens form part of a mixed series gathered partly at Croxton 

 (Norfolk) and partly on the way to Elveden (Suffolk), some of which 

 are small H. glabra L. — E. F. Linton. 



Montgomeryshire Eecords (p. 172). — From my list of un- 

 recorded plants collected by Miss Jones in 1895, the following was 

 inadvertently omitted : — Ballota nigra L. Chirbury Koad, Mont- 

 gomery. — William Whitwell. 



Middlesex Plants. — While recently botanizing in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Staines, it was my good fortune to find Stachys annua, 

 Ergthrcea pulchella, and Echinospenmitn LapjmJa, all of which I 

 believe to be new to Middlesex, as well as Patwe.v lininsiis profusely 

 distributed over a considerable space of unfrequented marshy land; 

 Mr. Hanbury kindly informs me that my naming of these is correct. 

 — E. F. Shepherd. 



NOTICES OE BOOKS. 



Journal of the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., dc, during Capt. 

 Cook's First Voyage in H.M.S. Endeavour in 1768-1771. 

 Edited by Sir Joseph D. Hooker. With Portraits and Charts. 

 (London: Macmillan. 1896.) Pp. li, 466. 17s.net. 



This is a remarkable instance of the materials for a fascinating 

 book having lain perdu for more than a century, and of their 

 eventual recovery and publication. The romantic story of the 

 adventures of the original MS., culminating in its sale in 1886 by 

 Lord Brabourne, who claimed it as a descendant of Lady Banks, 

 to an autograph dealer for £7 2s. 6d. ; its loss, the utilization for 

 the present work of a copy made for Dawson Turner and secured 

 by Mr. Carruthers for the Department of Botany, — all this story is 

 told by Sir Joseph Hooker (and by Mr. Carruthers in a letter to 

 him) in the Preface. Sir Joseph had been on a visit to his grand- 

 father in 1833 when it was being copied, and we owe this volume 



