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name, like Settle, exists indeed in botanical records of the last 
century, and even in the present, when it is necessary to repro- 
duce the discoveries of past ages; but we are not aware that this 
once famous botanical station has been the locale of recent ex- 
plorations. The London botanist can visit Harefield either vid 
Uxbridge, to which town the railway is now completed, or by the 
London and North-western, leaving the rail at Pinner station. 
The distance from either of these stations to Harefield is between 
five and six miles; Uxbridge is nearer to Harefield than Pinner is, 
and neither of the roads is interesting. The Pinner way would 
be preferable, if all the woods were not closed against the brethren 
of the vasculum and trowel. The jealousy of owners, and the 
zeal of gamekeepers, render it somewhat hazardous to enter these 
forbidden precincts. 

Kebiews. 
The Handbook of British Ferns, comprising Scientific and Popular 
Descriptions, with Engravings of all the indigenous Species and 
Varieties, with Instructions for their Cultwation. By THomas 
Moors, F.L.S., Curator of the Botanic Garden, Chelsea, and 
author of the ‘Popular History of British Ferns,’ etc. ete. 
London. 
This useful and deservedly popular treatise on the British 
Ferns is a very portable volume, small enough to be carried in a 
lady’s reticule, yet it contains a lucid and comprehensive digest 
of all that is known about these popular objects. We cannot 
state exactly the number of illustrations; but as all the British 
species are figured, and nearly all the varieties, we estimate them 
at about a hundred, exclusive of those employed to illustrate the 
structure of these plants. The work commences with an intro- 
duction, an account of the structure, the distribution, culture, and 
classification of Ferns, and from this portion the following is an 
extract :— 
The cultivation of ferns is a growing fancy, and one which may well be 
fostered and encouraged. For whoever admires ferns must be a lover of 
nature. Their simple ungaudy elegance—superlative though it be—has 
nothing in it to attract those whose eyes can feast only on the pageantry 
of floriculture. Flowers may be admired and esteemed for some quality 
