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Notwithstanding those defects, this is very much the best Catalogue 
of British Plants existing ; an especially useful feature in it is the ad- 
flition of a number to each plant representing its distribution in Bri- 
tain. To those acquainted with the "Cybele," it is not necessary to 
say that Britain is divided into 18 provinces and 112 counties and sub- 
counties. In the fifth edition of this Catalogue the census was given 
as far as provinces are concerned, but in this it is carried on to the 
minor divisions, and so gives a really good view of the rarity or fre- 
quency of each species. 
The appearance of the list has been improved by the change of 
publisher, but we are sorry to see it increased in size and priced the 
arrangement of the names in two columns instead of three as here- 
tofore, is one cause of the increased size, but very many more sub- 
species and varieties are entered. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Mr. Horace Mann is publishing in the ' Proceedings of the American Academy ' 
a CnhcaI list of the plants of the Hawaiian (Sandwich) Islands, which he has 
considerably augmented by his own explorations. 
•ignor Ardoino, of Mentone, has published a handy ' Flore Analvtique des 
epartements des Alpcs-Maritimcs,' which will prove useful to the numerous 
nglish and other visitors who spend the winter in that district. It is remark- 
a J rich in species, no less than 8468 being recorded in this volume, and rich 
J so m the varied forms which are to be found within a limited space, ranging 
thT l he Alpine plants of the Cima dei G ~ elas and other peaks of the Mari " 
e Ips to the African species found in the vicinity of Mentone, K\ce, and 
mes. 
r. Mellor, Curator of the Botanic Gardens of Mauritius, and formerly a 
member of the Livingstone expedition, had arrived at Cape Town. He consi- 
ered the intelligence respecting the death of Dr. Livingstone to be authentic. 
A ^ Irian a, for exhibiting a collection of economic and officinal plants of 
ranada at the Paris Exhibition, has received a gold medal worth several 
thousand francs. 
( : r - Pntzel has published a second part, consisting of 298 pages, of his 
conum Botanicarum Index Locllpletissimlls, , which enumerates all the bo- 
i n,Cai % ures published to the end of the year 1865. The author has dis- 
part f tHe ^^ ° are and industl 7 in the compilation of this as in the first 
, r e wor k, — a work indispensable to every working botanist, and for the 
M 1Ca \° n ° f Whidl We CIinnofc {oA ^efficiently gratefid. 
COn r * M * C - c ooke has added to Pteridology ■ A Fern Book for Everybody, 
11 ainiT1 S a11 *• British Ferns, with the Foreign Ferns suitable for a Fernery,' 
