I860.] REVIEWS. 123 



" Sonchus oleraceus var. S. lacerus, Willd. Sp. 1513. I have 

 distributed a few specimens of this from the neighbourhood of 

 Coatham^ north-east Yorkshire. The leaves are cut almost to 

 the midrib^ their lobes siniiated and sharply incised, the terminal 

 lobe scarcely larger than those of the sides. It is stated by 

 Boreau to be quite constant in its characters under cultivation. 



"Polygonum mite. Mr. John Hardy sends examples of this 

 species gathered with P. minus, at Mere, in Cheshire. It is new 

 to the Mersey province. 



" Festuca Broteri, Boiss. and Rent. Pug. 128. Mr. A. G. More 

 has identified his coast sandhill plant, of which mention was 

 made in January under the name of F. Pseudo-myurus, var. mari- 

 tima, with this Spanish and Mediterranean species." 



Note. — In the last Report, under Silene italica, for Bambridge 

 read Carabridare. 



Everybody's Journal (now amalgamated with the London Journal) . 



{From a Correspondent^ 



The editor or editors of a recently established weekly periodi- 

 cal, in his address "to the readers," among other things has the 

 following : — " Let us bespeak, if we can, their sympathy, their 

 goodwill, their kindly judgment, for we cannot flatter ourselves 

 that we shall never deserve their censure, though we would fain 

 hope that we shall never receive it." The charity of our con- 

 temporary is worthy of admiration, and imitation also ; but if he 

 had had as many proofs of the fault-finding propensities of mankind 

 as we have, or if his experience be not modified by an excess of 

 charity, or an overflow of the milk of human kindness, he would 

 not lay that flattering unction to his soul. His hope that he shall 

 never receive censure even when censure is merited, will surely be 

 a delusive hope. Fault-finding is as easy as lying. They that 

 want to hurt a dog will easily find a stone, and they will not 

 select a smooth one nor a soft one to fling at him. 



The redacteurs of this new weekly candidate for popularity, if 

 any of them should perchance see this, will excuse a notice of 

 some errors or inaccuracies which are recorded as evidence that 

 good-natured persons sometimes draw on the bank of benevolence 



