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classification ; with propagation, especially of trees ; with wild trees ; 

 Avith the trees and plants of particular districts ; with timber ; with 

 under-shruhs ; with herbaceous plants ; with cereals ; and with the 

 medicinal properties of herbs : in this last a chapter is devoted to the 

 medicinal herbs peculiar to Crete. Appended to the Enquir}^ are two 

 Treatises dealing respectivel^y with Odours and Weather-Signs, many 

 of the latter corresponding with those accepted among ourselves. 

 The Enquiry forms a valuable pendant to the work of Aristotle, so 

 far as plants are concerned, and English readers will be grateful to 

 Sir Arthur Hort for rendering it accessible to them in their "own 

 language. 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, etc. 



In Somei^set and Dorset Notes and Queries for March last 

 Mr. H. Downes prints the following note on a volume which he 

 recently discovered in a general dealer's shop in Taunton, " the chief 

 interest of which lies in the fact that it originally formed a part of 

 the library of Henry Lyte, and contains his signature and some manu- 

 script notes in his writing. The book in question consists of two 

 works bound together, viz., Alexikerus, seu Auxiliaris Hortus etc., 

 and Xora et Mira Artijicia, etc., . . . 'autore Antonio Mizaldo, 

 Monluciano» Medico. Lutetiae, 1564.' Mizauld was a well-known 

 French physician (1520-1578), who wrote many books, of which the 

 AJexikerus is one of the earliest. At the top of the title-i)age of 

 Alexikerus, in red ink, is the signature ' Henr}^ iyte,' and across the 

 printer's device (a mulberry tree) on the same page is 'Henry Lyte, 

 1505.' The signature is repeated on the title-page of the second 

 work. A few trifling marginal notes are scattered through the 

 volume, and many passages are underlined, the notes and underscorings, 

 as well as the signatures, being in red ink. At the end of the volume 

 are two pages of manuscript notes, mostly medical definitions or short 

 descriptions of diseases. A list of Mizauld's works is printed at the 

 end of the volume, and several of these are marked 'H ' (Habeo?), 

 which seems to show that Lyte possessed them. All the above are in 

 Lyte's handwriting .... A long and valuable article on the Lyte 

 Family, by Sir H. C. Maxwell-*Lyte, is to be found in the Transac- 

 lions of the Somerset ArchcBological Society, vol. xxxviii., where a 

 facsimile reproduction of Henry Lyte's signature has enabled the 

 l)resent writer to authenticate the handwriting in the volume under 

 consideration, lleference is also made to Lyte's habit of using both 

 red and black ink in his annotations. Sir H. Maxwell-Lyte informs 

 the writer that it is not known when or how Henry Lyte's library 

 was disjjcrsed. It is probable that this volume has been lying in 

 Somerset ever since he acquired it." A facsimile of the title-page 

 accompanies the note, which is followed by a transcription of the MS. 

 medical definitions. 



The New Pliytologist for May and June (published June 28) 

 contains a note on the distribution of sexes in Myrica Gale, by A. J. 

 Davey, 13.Sc., and C. M. Gibson, B.Sc, based on observations during 



