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This work, which is here so heartily commended for its excel- 

 lence and usefulness, is cheaper than even the cheapest edition of 

 'English Botany;' it is certainly more valuable, inasmuch as the 

 original objects, the things themselves, are more satisfactory than 

 the best representations of them. 



That this spirited undertaking may not fail for want of due 

 support, it is recommended to all collectors and preservers of 

 dried specimens ; and we hope they will buy it, get it bound and 

 place it on their shelves. It will be almost, if not altogether, a 

 complete British Herbarium ; and we should advise the editors 

 to make arrangements for supplying the British forms or species 

 which are not to be seen in the north of Germany. 



BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 



Answers to Cokrespondents, Notes, Remarks, etc. 



Our new correspondent JoLn Peers, whose communication lias been in 

 hand some considerable time, is requested to accept the Editor's thanlvsfor 

 his marked list of British species, and he is hereby assured that the young 

 Society of Warrington Naturalists has our sympathy and warmest wishes for 

 its success. Therulesof the new association have been mislaid ; if our friend 

 the honorary secretary will send another copy, it will be duly honoured in 

 the pages of the ' Phytologist.' 



The readers of the sole serial in which the progress of botany is regu- 

 larly reported, will appreciate a list of Warrington plants compiled by a 

 number of local botanists who co-operate in the undertaking. 



Our amiable friend " H. C," now residing and botanizing in Eoss-shire, 

 is informed that a series of Scotch Eoses will be very acceptable. The va- 

 rieties of Rom villosa are quite as numerous as the forms of R. canina, and 

 in intensity of colour, largeness of bloom, etc., they far surpass the common 

 Dog-rose. 



Astragalus hypor/lottls is not uncommon on limestone, in Scotland; and 

 the lobed-leafed form of CocJilearia, C.danica, is perhaps one of the com- 

 monest varieties of this variable species. 



" W. G. F. P.," of St. Peter's College, Westminster, is doubtless aware 

 that Asjjlenimn lanceolatmn is a rare British Pern, and also that Oxfordshire 

 is an unrecorded locality for this species. It has occurred sparingly in 

 Sussex, and it is not uncommon near Bristol (see below). 



Lastrea Filix-mas, var. pumila, is not an unusual alpine form, and, ac- 

 cording to W. G. F. P.'s experience, it 'is not confined to alpine situations. 



Our estimable friend John Lloyd is entitled to our heartiest thanks 

 for his offer of a list of the defunct and recently observed plants of Wands- 

 worth Common. The notes of a resident botanist on the changes of locality, 

 the disappearances and reappearances of plants in this well-known tract, 

 will be very acceptable to our numerous readers. 



