1861.] REVIEW. 345 



the above. Some of the fields were glowing like burnished 

 copper with the blossoms of the Onobrychis sativa, and the 

 Heaths were profuse, with Digitalis purpurea, Furze, and wild 

 Thyme. The hedges by the roadsides were enriched with Dog- 

 roses, Honeysuckles, Clematis, and Cornel. 



I must not forget to mention that on Turville Heath is an 

 avenue of Lime-trees, a quarter of a mile in length, and which 

 for magnitude and beauty I should say are unsurpassed. 



This part of the county of Bucks borders on the eastern side 

 of Oxfordshire."^ 



S. Beisly. 



The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, and Proceedings of the 

 Natural History Society of Montreal. Montreal: B.Dawson 

 and Son. London : Sampson Low and Co. No. I. No. 11. 

 No. III. No. IV. Vol. 6. 



In this miscellany the first article of a botanical kind is an 

 account of the Cornus florida, a little tree generally distributed 

 through the United States, said to be of extreme beauty, — the 

 neatest and showiest species of its genus. It is figured in the 

 ' Botanical Magazine,^ t. 526, and is probably not unknown to 

 the nurserymen of the United Kingdom. This is a very good 

 article. 



The " Physical Geography of the Appalachian Mountain Sys- 

 tem '' is an elaborate essay on the directions or bearings of this 

 central chain, the elevation of its peaks, table-lands, the depres- 

 sions of its valleys, gaps, etc. 



Among the miscellaneous reviews there is one on the Botani- 

 cal Society of Canada, or rather, an abstract of recent discoveries 



* This part of the county appears to me to be situated between the bounds de- 

 fined in the Act of Parliament of 23 Elizabeth, 1581, which prohibited cutting of 

 wood and timber to convert into coal or other fuel for the making of iron, or iron 

 metal in iron mills, within twenty-two miles from the City of London, or withm 

 twenty-two miles of the river Thames, from Dorchester, Oxon, downwards the said 

 river ; and it is worthy of remark tliat charcoal-burning is now carried on in the 

 woods of this district. 



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