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in some quantity. At Par, as aliens, I saw Centaurea aspera 

 Willd., Lepidiuvi 2^<^^'foliat'iim L., L. riulerale L., Bapistruvi 

 rugosum Berg, (abundantly), Conringia orientalis Dum. ; Sisyvi- 

 brmm Sophia L. (one specimen), CEnanthe odorata Jacq., Grepis 

 biennis L., Hyoscyamus niger L. At Falmouth I got a plant 

 of Brassica elongata Ehrh., at St. Germain's Beseda alba L. 

 Populus deltoide's Marsh. : to this must, I think, be referred all, 

 or nearly all, the Cornish records. I have an impression of seeing 

 true P. nigra when last in Cornwall, but I have no note. On this 

 occasion deltoides was alone observed. — ^G. Claeidge Deuce. 



Frullania germana in Madeira. — In my list of some 

 Madeira HepaticcB in Journ. Bot. p. 158, Frullania tenerijfa N. 

 ab E. will be found on record. I now hear from Mr. S. M. Mac- 

 vicar that, in consultation with Prof. Schiffner, he is satisfied that 

 my plant is the closely allied species F. germana Tayl., both male 

 and female plants being present. The interest attaching to this 

 change of species centres in the fact that the latter plant has 

 hitherto been known only from the British Isles and Faroe ; thus 

 its range of distribution is now greatly extended. — Eleonora 

 Armitage. 



BEVIEW. 



Alpine Plants of Europe, together with Cultural Hints. By 

 Harold Stuart Thompson, F.L.S. With 64 coloured 

 plates (311 figures). 8vo, cloth, pp. 287. Price Is. Qd. net. 

 Eoutledge. 

 The number of popular books devoted to " alpines," of varying 

 degrees of excellence and including some by no means excellent, 

 is considerable, but there was certainly room for this one. The 

 author combines botanical knowledge with an intimate acquaint- 

 ance with the plants in situ ; and this combination gives to his 

 work an accuracy and precision which are lacking in many pre- 

 ceding woi-ks on the subject. Mr. Thompson tells us that " the 

 book owes its origin chiefly to the fact that there is no well- 

 illustrated work in the English language descriptive of the 

 Flowering Plants of the whole range of the Alps " ; the numerous 

 coloured illustrations are from ^ehoWi?, Alpine Plants, and although 

 small are fairly satisfactory. It is however the text, in which 

 some seven hundred species are described, in which the superi- 

 ority of the volume over its predecessors is chiefly manifested ; the 

 descriptions are full and clear, the distribution, with details as to 

 altitude, kc, is carefully given, and the short cultural notes, 

 although "that part of the work is quite secondary to the botanical 

 side," are sufficient to be useful ; " a number of plants rarely or 

 never seen in English gardens are recommended for introduction." 

 The descriptive portion of the work is preceded by five chapters, 

 the first defining " what are alpine plants," the second summarizing 

 the characteristics of their native haunts, the third dealing with 



