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and a conspectus of the orders and families of British plants. 

 In plan and treatment it differs in no way from the preceding 

 portions, which have been noticed at length in these pages. 

 There is the same originality and the same wealth of out-of-the- 

 way and interesting information, as well as the same disregard 

 for accepted rules and conventions, e.g., in the substitution of 

 Uva-ursi for Arctostaphylos, as to which see this Journal for 

 1910, pp. 183, 206, on the latter of which Dr. Jackson shows that 

 the name, rendered as above by Mr. Williams, was originally 

 written as two words and is therefore "excluded by analogy." 

 The author acknowledges a grant from the Eoyal Society in aid 

 of the publication of the work, the next part of which will be 

 "published as soon as circumstances permit." 



Mr. James Kynoch (8 College Road, Brighton) has published 

 (price Qd.) a fourth and enlarged edition of Wild Floioers of Bar- 

 mouth and its Neighbourhood, in which has been incorporated the 

 list published by the Eev. T. Salwey in 1863. This indeed con- 

 stitutes more than half the book and its principal value ; it is 

 more extensive than the title of the book implies, as it includes 

 lists of ferns, mosses, hepatics and algae. Although it can hardly 

 claim to be GvitiGal—Erythrcea latifolia is given as a Barmouth 

 plant — and is erratic in its spelling, the list is interesting and sug- 

 gestive ; it has long been out of print, and Mr. Kynoch has done 

 well to render it accessible. 



Messrs. Routledge announce the publication of a volume 

 on The Alpine Plants of Europe, by Mr. H. Stuart Thompson, 

 which we may anticipate will be a useful addition to the numerous 

 works already devoted to the same subject. Mr. Thompson 

 possesses two qualifications often lacking to compilers of such 

 books — botanical knowledge and an intimate acquaintance with 

 the plants in their natural habitats — and these qualifications cannot 

 fail to give a special value to his work. 



The last part (Feb.-July 1910, pubhshed Feb. ,1911) of The 

 Essex Naturalist contains a Report on the Lichens of Epping 

 Forest by Mr. R. Paulson, some notes on the coast-flora of the 

 county, by Mr. J. C. Shenstone, and an interesting and exhaus- 

 tive biography of Dr. Benjamin Allen of Braintree (1663-1738) 

 who, although not himself a botanist, was a correspondent of Ray 

 and Dale. 



The Selborne Magazine for March contains', besides the paper 

 on introduced plants at Paisley, from which we give an extract on 

 p. 126, a useful article on Botanical Photography, by Mr. P. F. Visick. 



By direction of the London County Council, a tablet has been 

 affixed to No. 32, Soho-square (the National Hospital for Diseases 

 of the Heart), where for many years Sir Joseph Banks lived. 



We regret to announce the death of Mr. W. A. Clarke, of 

 Oxford, and of Colonel Beddome, whose name was for many years 

 intimately associated with Indian botany. Notices of both will 

 appear in an early issue. 



