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as a variety oipalustre, and by the latter author it is expressly 

 stated to have stalked leaves and entire stigmas. Neither do I 

 know whether E. chordorhizum of Grisebach is the same plant 

 as E. chordorhizum of Fries, or, if such be not the case, to which 

 of the two the name by right of priority belongs. The question 

 of nomenclature I will most willingly leave to be settled by Mr. 

 Babington, than whom no one is better qualified to pronounce a 

 satisfactory decision upon it.^' 



Mr. J. H. Davies exhibited specimens of Mosses as under : — 



Cylindrothecium Montagnei, B. and S. — West Yorkshire: dry 

 banks and rocks, about Malham and Gordale, J. Nowell and Dr. 

 Carrington. Gloucestershire : Leckhampton Hill, near Chelten- 

 ham, H. Beach. Sussex : shady wood near Wiston, G. Davies. 

 Westmoreland : limestone rocks near Milnthorp, /. Nowell. 



Hypnum salebrosum, Hoffm. — Gloucestershire : shady bank at 

 Charlton, near Cheltenham, in fruit, H. Beach. 



Orthotrichum Hutchinsice, H. andT. — Cumberland: rocks near 

 the head of Borrowdale, 1857, J. Nowell. 



Bryum lurbinatum, Swartz. — North Yorkshire : by the stream- 

 let below the new river bridge in Castle Howard Park, 1857, W. 

 Wilson. New to Yorkshire. 



Trentham and its Gardens. With Ten Illustrations on Wood, 

 from original Drawings and Photographs. London : Piper, 

 Stephenson, and Spence. 



In this well-conceived and well-executed description of the cele- 

 brated residence of one of our noblesse, — not a guide-book, for the 

 chateau, gardens, and park are not open to public curiosity, — the 

 author first gives the ancient history and antiquities of the place, 

 then an account of the hall, next of the gardens, and lastly of 

 the park. The following is oflered as a specimen of the author's 

 effective description of part of the gardens, in which 



"The chief aim has been to arrive at the highest point of natural per- 

 fection by the application of natural means. Looking towards the wood, 

 the eye crosses an astonishing variety of plants, shrubs, and trees. The 

 effect is singularly beautiful and harmonious — but it is produced by ma- 



