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that selfishness, conceit, prejudice, and pride effectually hinder 

 the hearty co-operation of those -who are engaged in kindred 

 pursuits. Personal emulation is productive only of useless bicker- 

 ings, strife, and animosities. Erom such evil dispositions all 

 should manfully strive to be delivered. 



A Manual of British and Foreign Plants, with their Latin and 

 English Names. By Leo H. Grindon, Lecturer on Botany, 

 Author of the 'Manchester Flora,' 'Manchester Walks and 

 "Wild Flowers,* etc. etc. London : William Pamplin, 45, Frith 

 Street, Soho Square. 



The main object of this systematically-arranged book, as the 

 author concisely states in his preface, " is to provide persons 

 with the means of readily learning the Latin name of a plant 

 when the English one is known, or vice versa." 



The names of the orders, genera, and species are printed in 

 massive bold characters, and most of them are marked, to help 

 the uninitiated to give each term its correct pronunciation. 



A general index of all the English and scientific names con- 

 cludes the work, which will be a handy companion to the field 

 botanist, to the visitor of flower-shows, also to those who visit 

 botanical collections and other assemblages of native and foreign 

 plants. Its typography is very creditable to the provincial press, 

 and its bibliopegistic finishings, or fittings, or appointments are 

 good specimens of the taste of country publishers. 



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Claytonia alsinoides. 

 I have just had put into my hands, by one of our members, specimens 

 of Claytonia alsinoides From the island of Bute. I am informed by another 

 of our members that he lias gathered it at Gourock, whilst the first work- 

 ing botanist of our " guid town" gives Gadder, towards the north of Glas- 

 gow, as a third locality. Nevertheless here we are not ambitious to have the 

 plant recorded as British, for we look upon it as an alien ; but at the same 

 time it would be better to admit it to the honours of the Flora with an 

 asterisk appended, to mark it as an interloper. I confess it does look strange 

 to find naturalists recording as British, seaweeds and other objects, vege- 

 table and animal, that are rare yisitants here, and yet persistently brand and 

 shut out our foreign relations when they come across to see us and take up 

 their abode at our doors. Widely different is the spirit of Asa Gray, jn his 



