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admitted that H. linanfulium — to my mind one of the most in- 

 teresting constituents of the Carnarvonshire flora, owing to the 

 remarkable extension given to its range in Great Britain by its 

 occurrence in North Wales — has a very much stronger claim to be 

 regarded as a native of that county than Mr. Griffith seems wilhng 

 to allow. — J. W. Cakr. 



[As Prof. Babington stated in his note {J own. Bot. 1889, 185), 

 one of the specimens originally collected by Mr. Carr is in the 

 British Herbarium of the Natural History Museum. Mr. Griffith's 

 Flora was published in 1895. — Ed. Joukn. Bot.] 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai. By the Eev. G. E. Post, 

 M.A., &c., Syrian Protestant College, Beirut, Syria. 8vo, 

 pp. 919, figg. 441, map. Price £1 Is. Od., post free from the 

 Author, as above. 

 There are many who will welcome this handbook, the cheapness 

 of which is remarkable. The English-speaking traveller in Palestine 

 who possesses some smattering of botany, as well as the home 

 student who finds it convenient to have at his elbow some com- 

 pendious and not too costly summary of the flora of auy region of 

 interest, will be grateful to Dr. Post for this work, which has been 

 produced, as his preface informs us and as we can readily believe, 

 under circumstances of considerable difficulty. The formation of a 

 herbarium, the undertaking of numerous and costly journeys, can 

 have been no trifling addition to the work of a man whose time was 

 already fully occupied ; and it was rendered more difficult, although 

 that difficulty was partly overcome by the help of brother botanists 

 more fortunately situated, by the absence of any large reference 

 library — an indispensable adjunct, one would have thought, to the 

 satisfactory carrying-out of such an undertaking. "The printing, 

 which has been achieved in spite of the limited typographical 

 resources of the Mission Press, has been a labour of no trifling 

 magnitude"; "the task of drawing most of the illustrations, and 

 superintending the execution of the woodcuts, has fallen on him." 

 Dr. Post trusts that "a lenient judgment will be passed on im- 

 perfections"; but it seems to us that these, where they exist, are 

 but few, in comparison with the interest and importance of the 

 contribution to the Flora of the Mediterranean region for which lie 

 has made us his debtors. 



The district embraced by the book extends from the Taurus to 

 Eas Muhammad, and from the Mediterranean to the borders of the 

 Syrian and Arabian Desert. The volume begins with an intro- 

 duction — or, more strictly, with the somewhat numerous "addendcX," 

 consisting mainly of plants which have been discovered since the 

 printing of the Flora was begun in 1883. Then comes a general 

 analytical key to all the orders ; special keys are also provided to 

 the larger tribes and genera. The species, to the number of nearly 



