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with a local list of plants. The 114 pages are clearly printed on good 
thick paper, and by way of suitable frontispiece is a small coloured 
map, "intended to assist in gaining a general idea of the physical 
geography of the neighbourhood of Andover." The general idea is 
given by a coloured line tracing out " the principal watersheds," and 
by distinguishing the surface into three leading characters, first, " the 
high grounds," represented to occupy about half of the surface, and 
of which "the larger portion is on a gravelly or clay-gravelly subsoil ;" 
second, " the open undulating hills," or bare downs, where, apparently, 
the chalk is found immediately under the surface ; third, "the valleys," 
or narrow strips along the courses of the streamlets, where " the gravels 
which accompany the courses of the streams in this district are strictly 
fluviatile, formed by the rivers themselves, partly directly from chalk 
flmts, still more largely from the high-level gravels." The species are 
severally located in accordance with this tripartite division of the sur- 
face, as fluviatile, sylvan, or chalk plants. 
The information thus epitomized here is expanded into a geological 
disquisition in the book. Enough is quoted to suggest that there is 
something not altogether consistent with the author's account of the 
surface soil and subsoil, so largely composed of clay and gravel, for 
the reader to be immediately after informed that " the list of Andover 
plants may be considered as the typical chalk flora of the south of 
England." It might be supposed that the clays and gravels would 
bear plants not at all typical of the chalk flora, to say nothing of the 
numerous weeds of cultivation, which the advanced views of the author 
rightly lead him to treat as alien introductions. Still, though the flora 
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properly be designated " the typical chalk flora," it does actually in- 
clude a proportionately large number of those species which appear to 
have some special connection with chalk, while we miss some few others 
which are elsewhere associated with chalk, or are common to the chalks 
and the harder limestones ; for example, among the Orchidea, the Qphrys 
opt/era and Aceras anthropophora, with other more rare kinds, have 
not been observed by our author within the five or ten miles radius 
from Andover. 
Mr. Clarke takes Babington's ' Manual of British Botany ' for his 
text book, and his readers are to understand that the Andover plants 
accord with the descriptions given in the text book. Where he finds 
