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England. Those who have seen this plant in the eastern coun- 

 ties of England or in some of the western^ will not hesitate to 

 say that it is a genuine British species. 



Tradescanf s Garden. 

 From an account of the remains of John Tradescant's garden, 

 by Mr. W. Watson, E.R.S. (see Phil. Tr.) :— " We found there the 

 Borago latifolia sempervirens, C. B., Polygonatum vuJgare lati- 

 folium, C. B., Aristolochia Clematitis recta, C. B., ax\& Dracon- 

 tium, Dod. Yet remain two trees of the Arbutus, also of Rham- 

 nus catharticus, twenty feet high." — Read May 25, 1749. 



The Flora of Essex. Bij Geo. S. Gibson, F.L.S. 

 London : W. Pamplin. 



Owing to a press of matter, supplied during the last six months, 

 this, the review department of the journal (an odd name for a 

 monthly periodical; but there are anomalies in literature, as 

 there are in science), has been in abeyance. The ' Flora of Essex ' 

 is the last received, and it is the first to be noticed ; reversing the 

 usual practice, " first come first served," this book, though the 

 most recent arrival, is placed first for review, on the new principle 

 of " last come first served." 



The modest and sensible preface to the 'Essex Flora,^ from 

 which (i. e. the preface) the following quotations are taken, will 

 give the reader an adequate synopsis of the contents of this work. 

 After stating that detailed localities are given under each species, 

 and several tables useful to such as desire to study the history 

 and distribution of the Essex plants, there is the following: — " The 

 first of these tables is a list of the rarer species of plants with the 

 date of their first recorded discovery in Essex, the name of the 

 original discoverer, and the year when they were last observed." 

 Another table shows what plants are native and what are intro- 

 duced. " The third is a comparison of the plants of Essex witli 

 those of the adjacent counties, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, 

 Suflfolk, and Kent. The fourth is a summary of the Essex flora, 

 compared with the sixth chapter of the fourth volume of Wat- 

 son's 'Cybele Britannica/ A fifth list contains plants not hitherto 



