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alpestre, Lepidium latifolium, and Frankenia levis, though stated to 
be introductions or unsatisfactory natives, have no “ star ” or “ dagger ” 
to intimate as much. This is as if a writer should employ, in a Flora 
of Britain, signs used to express nativity or introduction in a work 
relating to the plants of the whole of Europe. 
Notwithstanding these defects, the Devon and Cornwall Flora will, 
no doubt, be a very useful guide to the botany of those counties. This 
first part has been most carefully compiled ; there are no misprints or 
errors of. quotation, and the authorities for the localities are given at 
full length, instead of being merely indieated by initials, a very great 
practical convenience. Many of Mr. Ravenshaw's blunders and in- 
accuracies, too, have been corrected, as, for instance, the Devon locality 
for Ranunculus gramineus. Mr. Ravenshaw seemed to admit plants 
have been wrongly named in numerous instances, and should have 
been carefully looked through before C. E. P.’s localities were quoted, 
Perhaps it would be a better plan for Mr. Keys to authenticate loca- 
lities from Mr. Ravenshaw’s list with the original initials, than merely 
to affix “ Rav." to them all. 
Mr. Stewart’s-‘ Flora of Torquay’ (1860), does not seem to have 
been consulted, nor has that interesting little book, ‘ Jones’s Botanical 
Tour through Devon and Cornwall ' (1820), been systematically quoted, 
though it is once or twice referred to. 
The writer of this notice can add two plants to Mr. Keys's list— 
Fumaria muralis (Sond.) which is not uncommon about Torquay, and 
Arenaria leptoclados (Guss.), which certainly occurs on the sandy 
shore at Paignton, and probably in other places. 
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Salices Europee. Recensuit et descripsit Dr. Frederieus Wimmer. 
Breslau, 1866. Pp. xcii., 286. 
It is forty years since Dr. Wimmer began to publish his * Flora 
Silesize, and since that time he has devoted himself to botany, and 
especially to this extremely obscure and difficult genus, Salix. He 
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