96 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [April. 



transition period, the carboniferous period, the permian period (formation 

 of the new red sandstone), the Jura, chalk, tertiary, and diluvial periods ; 

 and on the surface of the earth as it now exists. 



The third book treats on the various sensuous perceptions resulting from 

 the aspect of plants, and in nineteen chapters contains sketchy outUnes of 

 the forms of the Palms, Orchids, Lilies, Grasses, Ferns, Mosses, Fungi, 

 etc. etc. 



The foiu'th book contains descriptions of the native homes of plants 

 (Pflanzen-regionen), the zones of plants, etc., and the connection between 

 the animal and the vegetable kingdoms. The second volume is promised 

 in the course of the current year. 



The author of the article from which the above is derived might have 

 given a bit of useful information to the public, viz. by stating whether or 

 no the work is to be completed in the second volume. We heartily wish 

 success to the undertaking, and believe that such a work, if confined within 

 due bounds, and made more interesting than works on the distribution of 

 plants generally are, would be very acceptable to some readers of the 

 ' Phytologist.' 



Common Plants. 



Sir, — Should the Rev. H. A. Stowell's classification of "Common Plants" 

 be acted on, I shoidd beg to suggest a Class E, to contain plants decidedly 

 rare, or such as are only fomid in twenty-five, or less, per cent, in any given 

 district. ' W. Dickinson. 



Synopsis Plor^ Germanice et Helvetic.e, exhibens Stirpes, etc. 



A third edition of this celebrated work has recently been issued, seven 

 years after the death of its eminent author (Professor Koch). It is re- 

 ported in the ' Botanische Zeitung ' to be a not altogether ^mattered im- 

 pression of the former edition, for the type is improved, and the page is 

 somewhat dilated; but other additions or improvements there are, the 

 " reviewer saith, none." Prom this it would appear, that though botany 

 may be advancing, the progress of Koch's ' Synopsis ' is limited to an en- 

 largement of the page and to the use of a larger tj'pe. 



Miss E. Hodgson, of Ulverstone, wishes that her name may be added 

 to the list of botanists who wish to exchange specimens of British plants. 

 We regret that this notice has been unaccountably delayed. 



Communications have been received from 



J. Griffiths; T. M.; E. E.; J. G.; E. P Wright; T. .J. Church; J. 

 Gifi^'ord; Rev. R. C. Douglas; J. Barton; S. W.; George Lawson ; Rev. 

 W. M. Hind; G. E. S. 



BOOKS KECEIVED FOR REVIEW. 



Moore's Index Filicum ; Part the First. 

 Laicsons Lectures on Botany. 

 Chads' British Botanist's Field Booh. 



