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vegetation of the Cretaceous period, and all of them are members of 
the European Miocenes. 
Among the Ferns from the Tertiary strata is an Onoclea, which 
Professor Newberry cannot distinguish from the living American O 
sensibilis, and which he considers the same as Filicitis ? Hebridicus, 
Forbes, from the Miocene beds of Mull. 
W. CARRUTHERS. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Wilkomm and Lange's Spanish Flora. 
“Terra ferax Cerere, multoque feracior uvis."—0Ovid, Am., ii. 16. 7. 
Dear Sir, —At page 239 of your fourth volume you state that, unless a few 
more subscribers can be obtained, the publication of Wilkomm and Lange's 
* Prodromus Flore vea anice’ must be discontin 
ued. 
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a hope that Spanish Mn ould at length awaken from their črvov Ahôa 
Baðúv, and endow science wid a T jawan of —"' he RR ur 
racterized as “the richest and most varied flora in 
Euro 
This appeal has been partially responded to by Diii, Costa, Graells, and 
a few others, whilst Webb, Boissier, Reuter, Kunze, Cosson, and Gay have 
done still more towards the description of Spanish plants. engin while 
the vegetation of every other European country is critically illustrated, in one 
or more standard works, Spain and Portugal alone have no Flora, the extensive 
and valuable collections made of late years, amongst which the magnificent 
ones of Bourgeau stand pre-eminent, though worked up more or less completely, 
having never been brought together and revised by a competent biases 
ar with the count 
To collect these irja membra, and study them comparatively from a uni- 
form point of view, was the task undertaken by Professors Wilkom 
regards scientifie accuracy in th 
graphical distribution, and neatness in the typography, it has been admirably 
executed. 
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abandonment of an undertaking for which the materials exist, and whereof the 
