148 REVIEWS. [May, 



18. Calamagrostis lapponica. Banks of Lough Neagh, Mr. D." Moore. 



19. Carex elongata. Do. Do. 



20. Senacio (sic scribitur vel imprimitur), Senecio squalidus. Cork, Mr. 

 W. Alexander. 



21. Sisyr'mcJdum anceps. Woodford, near Loughrea, in great abun- 

 dance. By James Lynan, Esq. 



22. EeliantJiemum canum {Cistns marifol., E. B.). Arran, Dr. Melville, 

 in 1855. 



23. Erica ciliaris. Craig-a-More, Mr. J. P. Bergin. 



24. Aspidium rigidum. Near Drogheda, Miss Williams. 



25. Asplenium lanceolatum. Near Cork, Mi*. Woods and Dr. Kinahan. 



26. SinietJds bicolor. Near Denynane, county Keny, Eev. T. O'Maliony. 



27. Baxifraga nivalis. Ben Bulben, John Wynne, Esq. ; D. N. H. 

 Bev. 539." 



This number contains also reviews of Captain M'Clintock's 

 Arctic Discoveries, Ellis^s ' Madagascar/ ' On Classification/ by 

 L. Agassiz, Mollhausen's ' Journey from the Mississippi to the 

 Coasts of the Pacific/ etc. etc. Some of these will be noticed at 

 some future time. 



Handbook of the British Flora. By George Bentham, F.L.S. 



1858. 



It has been from no intentional delay on the part of the ' Phy- 

 tologist ' that we are somewhat late in noticing this important 

 work. We could have wished that the contributor upon whose 

 assistance we relied, had been somewhat more prompt in reply- 

 ing to our invitation ; still, we hope that, however tardy an ac- 

 count, it may be even now acceptable to the readers of the ' Phy- 

 tologist.' 



As stated by the author in his preface, there are three features 

 in which the Handbook avowedly differs from any of the other 

 British Floras. 



First, Mr. Bentham thinks that the beginner (for whom his 

 book is expressly meant) will not be able to make out the names 

 of his plants, if he relies upon the arrangement and subdivision 

 of the Natural Orders, Genera, etc., as given in the current 

 Floras. So true is this remark, that the demand for Withering's 

 work still continues, and we often hear it recommended as the 

 only book from which a beginner can hope to teach himself 



