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with small sacrifice of time and money, a larger number of competitors would be 
couraged among the employed classes, few of whom could spare the time and 
outlay that would be needlessly — in making complete collections of 
rarities for tracts so large as a whole coun: 
Notwithstanding the mention of “all die it is presumed that the o prizes 
must be chiefly intended to stimulate young gardeners, and perhaps others of 
te 
prizes ; and it may be added, without wishing to suggest: offensive compari- 
suecessful competition on the part of employed gardeners and others able to 
spare little of either? 
he prizes for * new species found growing in the United Kingdom," 
it is to be feared that such prizes will tend to introduce foreign species, quite as 
much as the other prizes will tend to extirpate native — unless much 
caution be used in awarding the medals. Hewerr C. WATSON. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
English Botany, 3rd edition. Edited by J. T. Boswell Syme, F.L.S., 
the popular portion by Mrs. Lankester. Vols. I. and II. London: 
Hardwicke. 
We have already (Vol. I. p. 26) devoted a few pages to the explana- 
tion of the general method according to which the new edition of ‘ En- 
glish Botany’ is planned, and, now that the end of the second volume 
is reached, it seems to be a suitable time to fulfil our promise of re- 
turning to the work with a view of speaking more particularly respect- 
ing points of detail. ‘The two volumes are made up of fourteen monthly 
issues, and carry us to the end of Thalamiflore, including Ilex, Montia, 
and Polycarpon. For the whole of Europe, Nyman’s * Sylloge’ enume- 
rates under the subclass rather less than 300 genera, and on the average 
rather more than 8 species to a genus; and for Britain the ‘London 
Catalogue’ makes mention of 89 genera and 269 species, inclusive of 
several manifest introductions, 
As the work proceeds, what indeed was manifest from the beginning 
becomes fully apparent, how much cause all who are interested in the 
progress of British botany have to congratulate themselves that the 
