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in August 1851 to see '• if buttercups and daisies grew " here. He 

 was at Boston, which is on the north side of his own boundary the 

 Witham. He also visited what had been the East Fen which is N.W. 

 of Boston town. When he pubHshed his book, he included Banks's 

 list in A. Young's Lincolnshire Agriculture, 1799, of the East Fen 

 plants, but put them in S. Lines. 53 instead of N. Lines. 54, 

 confusing Mr. A. Bennett and other accurate workers, who have had 

 to write to me for an explanation. — E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock. 



Caeex basilaris Jord. (Journ. Bot. 1916, 141, 240 ; id. 1917, 

 55). It IS satisfactory to know that Mr. G. C. Druce's sedge from 

 ^lont des Oiseaux, Hyeres, though first named C. basilaris was 

 subsequently corrected to the allied C. Halleriana, the species 

 suggested in my note. The fact that the mistaken record was 

 casually published in 1907 is no reason for not suggesting a correction 

 in 191(3. As Mr. Druce thinks it desirable to state that C. basilaris 

 is -'already recorded" from the Var, I must, in the interests of 

 geographical botany, be allowed to repeat my own statement that it 

 has only been recorded in that Department from the Col du Lentisque 

 in the porphyritic Esterel mountains, not far from Cannes. — H. S. 

 Thompson. 



REVIEW, 



AlgcB. Volume I. MyxophycefP, Peridiniece^ Bacillariece, Chloro- 

 phycefP, together with a Brief Summary of the Occurrence and 

 Distribution of Freshwater AlgcE. By G. S. West, M.A., D.Sc, 

 F.L.S. Demy 8vo, cloth, pp. viii, 475 ; 271 iigg. Cambridge 

 University Press. 1916. Price 256-. 



Prof. West's is the first of the new^ sei-ies of Cambridge Botanical 

 Handbooks, edited by A. C. Seward and A, G. Tansley, and may pre- 

 sumably be taken as a type of the whole series. The aj^pearance of 

 the volume is decidedly attractive ; the type is large and clear, the 

 paper excellent, and the abundant illustrations are arranged and 

 reproduced to the best advantage. One is inclined to wonder whether 

 a somewhat less sumptuous production would not have satisfied all 

 needs without in any way interfering with the utility of tne book. 

 The price can only be described as prohibitive, and we fear will 

 necessarily limit the circulation of the book in just those circles to 

 which it is intended to appeal. 



The pi-esent volume deals only with the Myxophycese, Baeillariese, 

 and Chlorophyce;e (incl. Isokontai, Akonta3, Stephanokonta?, and 

 Heterokonta;), and concludes with a section on the occurrence and 

 distribution of freshwater Algae, The remaining groups will form the 

 subject of a second volume. A comprehensive account of the Algse 

 in the English language, has long been an urgent necessity, which was ' 

 in no way satisfied b}^ the author's British Freshwater AlgcB, valuable 

 as that work was from a systematic point of view. Prof. West, with 

 his unique knowledge of the Algae, is perhaps better fitted than anyone 

 else to write a book on this group and, with certain qualifications, it 



