70 REVIEWS. [March, 



that portion of the Dorsetshire coast is not without a parallel in 

 the annals of vegetation elsewhere. 



We wish some of our Dorsetshire or Suffolk correspondents 

 would be so obliging as to inform us if the Sea-Pea be as produc- 

 tive as it was in the times of Gerard, when " it grew on a place 

 all hard stone and pibble, called Shilfe, between Oxford (? Orford) 

 and Oldboroughj whereof the poore gathered above an hundred 

 quarters (as man judged), yet remained some ripe and some blos- 

 soming as many as ever there were before.^^ Portland Sago is 

 also renowned among the marvels of vegetation that existed in 

 past ages. 



Another article in the number is ' Remarks on the New Me- 

 thod of Arranging Ferns/ and a brief ' Note on Pseudatherium 

 flexile,' both by Mr. Newman. The former is rather above or 

 beyond our cut, but we cordially recommend it to the attentive 

 perusal of pteridologists. 



The Natural History Review, No. 1, January, 1857. London: 

 Williams and Norgate. 



This well-conducted and useful periodical contains reviews of 

 the British Diatomacese, by W. S. Dallas, of the 'Manual of 

 British Botany,' by Mr. Babington, and "^Glaucus, or the Wonders 

 of the Shore,' by the Rev. C. Kingsley. There are many other 

 Works on Zoology and Geology reviewed or noticed, but these 

 sciences are beyond our border : we are restricted to Botany. 

 This number contains reports or abstracts from original com- 

 munications made to the various societies in Great Britain and 

 Ireland, during the past year or the latter portion of it, together 

 with the contents of the numerous serial publications devoted to 

 natural science and published in America, Great Britain, Belgium, 

 Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Sweden, Switzer- 

 land, etc. There are a few passages which have been marked as 

 likely to interest our readers, and these we intend entering from 

 time to time when we can find room for them, indicating tlie 

 source from which they are derived. Etiquette does not sanction 

 the practice of re\dewing reviews, and consequently we have only 

 cordially to recommend the ' Natural History B/Cview' to the no- 

 tice of our readers. 



