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very extensive sands. The Statice caspia is so abundant in one place 
as nearly to cover the whole surface of probably a square of a hun 
yards. It was coming into full flower on July 13, and its presence 
was manifested at a considerable distance by the mass of its flowers.— 
C. C. BABINGTON. 
FUCUS FURCATUS, Agardh, A NEW BRITISH SEAWEED, 
Professor Harvey and Mr. N. B. Ward discovered, in July last, 
Fucus furcatus, Agardh, on the west coast of Ireland, full particulars 
of which, and a plate, will be published in our Journal at an early date: 
This addition to our marine flora is the more important as the Fucus 
in question had hitherto been met with only at Unalashka (Behring 
Strait), and on the coast of Newfoundland. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Naturalists’ Scrap Book for the Liverpool District. Parts I. to VI. 8vo. 
We have received and read with pleasure the first six numbers of 
this unpretending journal, and we had best let its editors explain their 
object in their own words :— 
: “The title chosen for this publication suggests the objects for which it is 
issued, namely, to serve as a repository for new or interesting information 
relating to the natural history of Liverpool and its neighbourhood, and to form 
à medium of communication between our local naturalists. 
“Facts, trifling in themselves, when brought together, form the basis on 
Which alone the life-history of an animal or plant can be furnished.” 
` The portion which has appeared proves, what we never doubted, 
that a popularly-written journal, although it contains many statements 
of only local interest, may nevertheless be totally devoid of the twaddle 
With which such periodicals are not unfrequently filled. ^ This shows 
that the editors are men of sound judgment, and good naturalists, and 
— that there are many readers and contributors as little inclined to accept 
Nonsense and trivialities for science as are the editors, In order to 
Save expense, this journal is not printed from type, but lithographed, 
and it is issued to the subscribers at almost exactly cost price. Each 
