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The book concludes with a similar account of the Mosses. 
We have hardly any criticisms to make, but may remark that the 
author seems too much given to use hard terms in the place of simple 
ones. Why speak of montane, sylvestral, pratal, pascual, ericetal, 
uliginal, agrestal plants, rather than the more usual English forms of 
mountain, wood, meadow, pasture, heath, bog, and field plants? We 
do not see any benefit attending the change to compensate for it. But 
we are not inclined to take the ungracious trouble of picking holes in 
a book which we can most cordially recommend. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
The first part of Bentham’s Flora. of Australia is going through the press. 
The University of Zurich has conferred upon Mr. Moore, Curator of the 
Glasnevin Botanic Garden, the degree of Ph.D., for his communications to the 
advancement of natural science. 
Hahmann, on the Palm-worship of the ancients, which caused some sensation 
and much more complete than that given in Walpers’ ‘ Annales.’ 
` The Directorship of the Botanic Gardens at Hamburg, vacant by the death 
9f Professor Lelimann, has not yet been conferred upon any of the numerous 
h ge for it. In the long list of candidates we notice, amongst à host 
ure names, 
bach fil., Sonder, and Karsten. Reichenbach. possesses, besides personal quali 
fications of a high order, the largest private herbarium in Germany ; and in a 
great city like Hamburg, which has no publie collections of dried | 
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