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Specimens of Odontites verna and Odontites verna, var. elegans, 

 were exhibited from Mr. John Ball, in illustration of the plants de- 

 scribed by him in the ' Botanical Gazette' for September. 



A paper was read from Mr. W. H. Coleman " On the plants indi- 

 genous to the Neighbourhood of Horsham, Sussex." — G. E. D. 



Notice of l Cybele Britannica ; or British Plants and their Geo- 

 graphical Relations. By Hewett Cottrell Watson. Vol. 

 II. London : Longman and Co. 1849.' 



The second volume of Cybele Britannica' has just issued from the 

 press : it presents no new feature, being simply a continuation of the 

 first, and proceeding regularly with the orders, from Loranthaceae to 

 Alismaceae inclusive. The author pi'oposes to prepare a third volume 

 for the press in 1850 or 1851 ; and in order to make the work as com- 

 plete and useful as possible, in the light of a condensed arrangement 

 of facts, Mr. Watson earnestly recommends that competent botanists 

 will make public through the periodicals, or communicate to himself, 

 any information which may tend to fill up deficiencies, remedy de- 

 fects, or correct errors, in either of the earlier volumes. 



" The Orders which still remain to be treated in the third volume, 

 are the two heterogenous assemblages of Fluviales and Araceae, as 

 these stand in the ' London Catalogue of British Plants,' together 

 with Restiaceae, Juncaceae, Cyperaceae, Gramina, Filices, and Pteri- 

 dioides ; the last mixed group including Lycopodium, Isoetes, Pilu- 

 laria, and Equisetum. Taken together, these orders include upwards 

 of three hundred species, that is, rather less than half the number 

 treated in the present volume." — p. iv. 



But with the addenda to be made to the orders previously pub- 

 lished, this third volume will probably equal in size those which have 

 preceded it. 



In our notice of the first volume of this important and really labo- 

 rious work, we fully explained its object and plan, quoting largely 

 from the author's own pages : on the present occasion we shall do no 

 more than make a few extracts from the text, in order to exhibit the 

 author's mode of treating plants differently circumstanced. 



In the first place we will select a plant distributed throughout 

 Britain, from the extreme south to the extreme north, and from the 

 sea level to the mountain tops. 



