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It is respectfully suggested to the author of these sketches and 

 to the compiler of the botanical lists that there are some discre- 

 pancies between the text and the complete lists. It is not ex- 

 pected that all the names in the lists should appear in the text ; 

 but it is desirable that all the species entered in the body of the 

 work should be entered in the lists, and also should appear under 

 the same names. For example, Campanula glomerata is entered 

 in the text, p, 128, and is omitted in the complete list, p. 198. 

 Schoberia maritima is the name given in the text, and Suaeda 

 maritima is that printed in the list. We miss Verbascum nigrum ; 

 is this common chalk-plant absent from so large a district abound- 

 ing in chalk and gravelly soil ? Again, are there no sandy hil- 

 locks and flats near Shoreham where Saxifraga granulata grows ? 

 Is this plant also absent ? Senebiera didyma is in the text, but 

 does not appear in the list. Is it generally known that Stellaria 

 nemorum grows in the very south of England ? If so, the learned 

 author of the 'Cybele' will, in his new edition of that work, 

 have to extend its bounds. This remark is also applicable to Hy- 

 pericum dubium. Erodium cicutarium is omitted from the list, 

 but it appears in the text. These blemishes will disappear in the 

 next edition, which we hope will soon be wanted. On p. y.8 

 Cruciferi(B is printed for Crucifera. The Yellow Centaury, Chlo- 

 ra perfoliata, is not confined to the south of England : see p. 130. 

 The writer of this, while botanizing in Cheshire, which is as near 

 the north as the south of England, saw hundreds of the plant in 

 a pasture-field ; not so fine examples as those that grow in Kent, 

 Sussex, and the Isle of Wight, but quite as plentiful — even more 

 so. At the risk of being thought hypercritical, the writer pre- 

 sumes to point out another error in etymology or rather in typo- 

 graphy, aveyeXam should be avayeXaco. We believe that the 

 name Anagallis is from ayaWt'^, an onion, or some plant like 

 garlic, rather than from the verb " I laugh. ^^ Again, Habenaria 

 clorantha, another Greek derivative, should be H. chlorantha, from 

 the same root as the generic name of Chlora perfoliata, Yellow- 

 wort. The author, in her Preface, p. vii., directs the reader's 

 attention to the " Errata and Corrigenda : " this is our excuse 

 for noticing so many. 



In conclusion, we beg to encourage the fair authoress, and at 

 the same time warmly to recommend the work to the notice of 

 our readers, and especially to our London members of the con- 

 fraternity who purpose spending a day or two or a week in looking 



