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BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Another British botanist has been lost to us by the death of the Rev. W. H. 
Coleman, M.A., lately one of the masters of the Grammar School, Ashby-de-la- 
Zouch, and formerly of Christ’s Hospital, Hertford. His knowledge of British 
plants was accurate and extensive, especially in the more difficult genera. 
his additions to our flora were (nante fluviatilis, Colem., which he was the 
first to disentangle from the better-known @. Phellandrium, Lam., and Carex 
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ed writings were too few to manifest sufficiently that care and ex 
which his friends valued so much in him. Besides this critical acquaintance 
with species, Mr. Coleman will be longer bered and more prized in con- 
nection with the advanced views he entertained on the geographical distribution 
of British plants (vide * Phytologist,’ 1st ser. vol. iii. p. 217), which were exer 
plified in Webb and Coleman’s ‘Flora of Hertfordshire” This was the first 
county flora which divided the shire into districts, giving a more or less com” 
plete flora of each of them, and exhibiting the relations of the plants to the 
soils in which they grow in an evident and satisfactory manner. It was indeed 
a new starting-point for county floras, and all authors who have since produced 
similar works of any value have followed in the path laid down by Mr. Cole- 
man. He died September 12th, at Burton-on-Trent. 
A. and J. Kerner propose to publish an Herbarium of Austrian Willows, to 
consist in all of about 100 species, in ten decades (price one thaler each), at the 
rate of two or three decades annually. From the attention which they have 
to this genus, the collection will be of value to all critical botanists. "Wagner ° 
Innsbriick, is the publisher ; but they may be had, we believe, through Williams 
and Norgate, of London. : a 
have just received the first two parts of ‘ Annales Musei Botame 
Lugduno-Batavi,’ by F. A. Guil. Miquel. The richness of the Leyden Herba- 
whose acquaintance with the particular families they have undertaken is 
nown. The work is in folio, each number consisting of eight sheets an! 
one Plate. e could wish that more care were bestowed on this single illus- 
tration : if bright colouring were the test of a good plate, none could complain, 
but whoever takes the trouble of comparing the drawing of Rhododendro® 
Javanicum, on Plate I., with that in Brown and Bennett’s ‘ Plante Javamice 
Rariores’ will be surprised with the contrast. The dissections are, however 
very carefully executed, 
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