346 NEW PUBLICATION. 
the place being so close to the boundary line, my informant was uncertain 
whether it was m Worcestershire or Herefordshire, and possibly it may be in 
both counties However this may eventually turn out, the Eryngium cam- 
pestre , 8 an addition to Mr. Watson's "Mid-Severn sub-province," on what I 
trust may be deemed reliable authority. 
Edwin Lees, F.L.S 
Worcester. October "14 1SR>7 
NEW PUBLICATION. 
Materials for a Flora of Wakefield and its Neighbourhood. By T. W. 
Gissing. London and Huddersfield. 1867. (Pp.59.) 
The author of this little book is already known in connection with 
West 
1862 ; he has now extended his observations to the flowering plants 
of the district, and the result is the enumeration of nearly 600 species 
growing within twelve miles of the town. 
There is little fresh matter in these « Materials.' Miall and Carring- 
ton s Flora of the West Biding/ published in 1862, contains a full 
list of Wakefield plants, mainly contributed by Mr. Gissing himself; 
and to this list Mr. Gissing now adds only about a dozen species, pro- 
baidy native, though several exotics more or less naturalized are now 
first included in the Wakefield flora. Melilotus arvensis, Trifolinm re* 
wptmtum, Jremonia agrimonioides, and Setaria viridis, are examples 
of the latter plants ; « Oxalis corniadala," too, mentioned as "occa- 
sionally found in gardens," is probably the American 0. striata. 
frequent weed in such localities in many parts of England. 
Ihe 'Wakefield Flora ' is not liable to the charge so often with jus- 
tice preferred against local Floras, that of making out the largest possible 
number of species in the district examined. Indeed, Mr. Bentha.n's 
Handbook' seems to have been mainly employed, in its arrangement 
at all events, m the difficult genera. Nevertheless, a few segregate 
species (e.g. Fumaria confusa and Stellaria Bomana) are also men- 
turned ; ana the cultivated Buxus is, for some unexplained reason, in- 
troduced. 
The "Callitriche autumnalis" mentioned is probably C. pedunculate, 
which, together with 0. ptefgearpa, formerly went by that name. 
