1863.] ■ REVIEW. . 311 



on a first trial, when they barely knew what the author intended 

 to describe.*' 



M. Crepin adds, " Occasionally adversaries of the new school, 

 or the progressionists — or jjrop'esistos, as a Spaniard might 

 term them — both write to me and tell me viva voce that they 

 have sent obscure and critical species to several phytographers, 

 celebrated for the specific creations they have inaugurated, and 

 that these have returned the specimens undetermined. My cor- 

 respondents infer that these savants did not recognize their own 

 offspring, and consequently that their learned labour was entirely 

 lost. These conclusions are quite contemptible ; the examples 

 sent are always dried, and sometimes (often ?) imperfect, and a 

 prudent man would not commit his reputation to such inquirers. 

 Besides, in some genera there are disputed forms and imperfectly 

 known species, which cannot be positively determined without 

 the aid of numerous living specimens." 



M. Crepin, with much good feeling, alludes to the loss bo- 

 tanical science generally, and Belgian botany especially, suf- 

 fered by the assassination and death of Count Limminghe, who 

 consecrated both his fortune and his personal exertions to aid 

 the progress of botany. 



The important additions to the Belgian flora, for which all 

 botanists are indebted to our author, are the following : — Sagina 

 deprcssa, Cerastium tetrandrum, Glaucium flavum, Arabis mu- 

 ralis, Thlaspi neglectum, Viola miradilis, Trifolium maritimum, 

 T. fiJiforme (T. micranthum) , Sediim aureura, Rosa coronata, 

 R. ardcjinensis, Ejnlobium lanceolatum, E. Lamyi, Cynoglossum 

 montanum, Senecio jacquinianus, Artemisia camphoi^ata, Crejjis 

 nicceensis, Hieracium mosanwn, Potamogeton planiagineus^ Zostera 

 nana, Carex divisa, Bromus patulus. 



Sagina depressa is not a very recent creation. It ^ras dis- 

 tinguished about forty years ago by K. F. Schultz, author of 

 'Prodromus Florss Stargardicnsis,' As it is just possible that all 

 our readers may not be deeply read in the political geography of 

 Germany, for the benefit of the very few be it understood that 

 Stargard is on the right bank of the river Oder, about seventy 

 or eighty miles north of Berlin. [Note. — This is not the same 

 savant to whom the readers of the ' Phytologist' are indebted for 

 the Flora of Pfalz, and for the emendations and corrections wdiich 

 have 1)een submitted to their notice.) Sagina depressa is the 



