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is much larger than the former, but is still far from coming 
under the category, weya BiB\uov peya Kaxov (a great book is a 
great evil) ; but value is not always to be inferred from size, or a 
boulder of quartz would be better than a diamond. We will 
descend to particulars. In Mr. Luxford’s ‘Flora’ the Carices 
are 20, in Mr. Brewer’s they are 28. The Grasses in the former 
are 42, in the latter 62. Luxford gave us 26 umbelliferous 
plants, Brewer gives 31. The Old Flora notices 4 Pondweeds 
(Potamogetones), the ‘New Flora’ contains 10. Both Old and 
New Floras agree in their arrangement, which is the Linnean. 
We have no business to find fault with this, though we should 
have preferred the arrangement adopted by the compilers of the 
‘London Catalogue of British Plants. We would, in addition 
to this, have mentioned our obligations (7. e. those of the botani- 
cal fraternity) to Mr. Luxford, the predecessor of Mr. Brewer in 
this field. We do not know that the author of the ‘ New Flora’ 
hes under any special obligations to the author of the Old. 
But we do; and we should have been glad to have observed in 
the present work some recognition of the former, which was ho- 
nourably mentioned during the life of its author. The good that 
men do too often dies with them; we mean the remembrance 
and the memorials of the good done; for goodness itself and all 
its manifestations are, like evergreens and everlastings, sempi- 
ternal. We cannot say, as we have said in the notice of the List 
of North Devon Plants, that we were disappointed at not finding 
some things which we thought almost universal. But we are 
disappointed at not finding some station or localities for some 
rare plants; for example, Helleborus viridis, Ranmer Common ; 
Lilium Martagon, wood near Woodmanstone. The same plant 
also occurs at Effingham, in a wood there. 
In the first article in the ‘ Phytologist’ for June last we find 
nine species not noticed by the author of the New Reigate 
Flora, viz. Nasturtium sylvestre, Barbarea precox, Spergula 
nodosa, Petroselinum segetum, Silybum Marianum, Hypocheris 
glabra (Reigate Heath), Campanula Rapunculus, Melissa offici- 
nalis, Carex pallescens. We are obliged to Mr. Brewer for this 
contribution to our knowledge of local botany, and we cordially 
recommend it to our readers who have an intention of visiting 
this charming locality. 

