REVIEWS. 4.09 
Tsatis tinctoria. 
A correspondent has called our attention to a statement to 
the effect that [satis tinctoria grows on the Hog’s Back, to the 
west of the river Wey, viz. in the Compton Chalk-pit, or rather 
on a cliff of the chalk there. We are requested to state that it _ 
was put there for experimental purposes, and that when these © 
‘were accomplished the ‘plant was destroyed, or believed to have 
been so. The attempt to eradicate it from its new locality ap- 
pears to have failed, and we cannot say that we regret its failure. 
In reference to the station noticed in the descriptive British 
Botany, as printed in the ‘ Phytologist,’ we may restate that we 
never noticed a plant of the Woad in the Echo Chalk-pits, 
opposite Chantry Downs, though these are not half a mile 
from its station in the Shalford-road pits. We cannot verify 
Mr. Brewer’s locality at Albury. We once took a plant from 
Guildford, and cultivated it in a garden in Albury street, for 
descriptive purposes. We never saw one in a pit there, nor ever 
planted one except in the garden as above said, and for said 
purpose. 
The range of the plant at Guildford is very limited ; but it is 
very plentiful im that spot, one or two chalk-pits and one or 
two fields. The writer of this knows of its being in the same 
locality above thirty years; and he learned from a very aged 
cultivator of plants that it had existed in the same place for 
at least fifty years previously to 1825.. It has therefore been 
naturalized about Guildford for about a century certain, how 
much longer we cannot guess. It is likely to remain as long 
again, though it is not likely to extend its range unless aided by 
voluntary or involuntary agencies. 
Rebiews, 
A Monograph of the British Hieracia, By James Backuouss, 
Jun. York: Wm. Simpson. ~ 
When Hudson published his ‘Flora Anglica,’ now nearly a 
century ago, there were just five species of British plants be- 
longing to this genus. This author indeed has eight species in 
his work, but two of them, by tacit consent, are omitted in 
N. 8. VOL. I. 3G 
