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that “ the edges of the upper petal are not covered by the two adjoining ones,” 
does not apply to the fresh flowers when exactly in their prime, but only when 
they are beginning to go off,—a state marked by their change of colour from 
bright red to purple. Of course, the natural divergence of the petals is in- 
creased by the pressure employed in preparing specimens for the herbarium. 
The figure in the * Journal of Botany’ (t. 4), though in most respects admi- 
rable, gem c the petals as too patulous, and the colour of the flowers deeper 
n ess brilliant than is natural. The marking also in-the centre of 
each of de cos porianthesegments forming the lower lip, though defined by 
a dark line, is not of so deep a tint as — but is pale with the colour 
round shading somewhat into it. _W. J. DYER; H. TRIMEN. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
A Flora of Ulster, and Botanists Guide to the North of Ireland. By 
G. Dickie, A.M., M.D. 12mo, pp. 176. London: Lovell Reeve. 
Dr. Dickie went to fill a professor’s chair at Belfast with already 
considerable experience in the study of plant-topography. So little 
was known about the distribution of Irish plants, that he found a wide 
field of useful labour ready to enter upon. — He has not failed to make 
use of his opportunity, but has worked in this field both diligently and 
intelligently ; and though he modestly tells us we must take the present 
volume only as collectanea towards a more complete Flora, it seems 
likely that the list of plants is not far from completeness; and we are 
sure that the work will be weleomed heartily, both by the botanists of 
the district upon which it treats and by a wider circle. 
The second title gives perhaps the most accurate idea of what the 
book really is. The bounds of the district embraced fall a little short 
in one direction of those of the province of Ulster, and they include in 
addition a slice of the northern portion of Connaught. The work gives 
a complete list of the species known to inhabit this tract, with much inter- 
esting information about their localities and vertical range, and a careful 
list of the stations observed by the author himself, and by other bo- 
tanists, for any that are at all rare. The area of the North of Ire- 
land, as thus limited, is in round numbers 10,000 square miles, which 
is rather less than twice that of Yorkshire, rather more than one-sixth 
of that of the whole of England and Wales. The latitude of the 
