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keep them for parliament, bul not to judge in them ;" that the in- 

 convenience would be great if the Chancery might, upon sugges- 

 tions or sheriff's returns, send writs for new elections, and those not 

 subject to examination in parliament : for so, when fit men were 

 chosen by the counties and boroughs, the lord chancellor or the she- 

 riffs might displace them, and send out new writs until some were 

 chosen to their liking — a thing dangerous in precedent for the time 

 to come.''* 



M.R.S.L. 



(The Second Chapter icill he concluded in our next Number.) 



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The New Bofanisis' Guide to the Localities of the Rarer Plants of 

 Britain. Bv Hewett Cotterell Watson; 8vo. London, 1837; 

 Vol. ii. pp. kxiv, 267. 



This \'olume completes Mr. Watson's Nerv Botaiiists' Guide, and 

 also the execution of his self-imposed undertaking which must have 

 been as laborious as its accomplishment is happy and commendable. 

 It comprises the Localities of the Barer Plants of Scotland and the 

 adjacent Isles, and an ample Supplement to the first portion of his 

 Guide already published. F^.ighty-one plants with their localities 

 are assigned to the Isle of INIan, on the authority of lists communi- 

 cated to IMr. W. by two friendly correspondents. One of these 

 transmitted, with his catalogue, a small " botanico-geologic chart" 

 on which the island is thus described. 



" The Isle of Man is thirty miles long, by about twelve at its broadest 

 part. The greater portion of the island is composed of clay -slate, which at 

 the sea-coast, is overlapped by greywacke and transition-slate. At its north 

 point there is a large tract of sandy marl : this is almost tiat, and its central 



• ParUamentanj History, vol. 5. AJr. Hume's ipxe dixit may be very safely 

 discarded, when he says, " there was reason to believe that this measure be- 

 incr entered into so early in the king's reign, proceeded more from precipita- 

 tion and mistake, than from any serious design of invading the jirivileges of 

 parliament," since he must have learnt from the Basilicon Doron that he took 

 possession of the English crown with the resolved purpose to maintain the 

 most absolute principles of monarchical power. 



