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specimens examined by Professor G. J. Allman, and among which he 

 found intermediate forms, fall under this category. The true plant was 

 found by me abundantly in 1856, growing in clefts in tlie rock, and in 

 dry stations generally; the plants generally single." 



In the list of the characteristic Ferns of the several districts 

 there are several names which, to the readers of English Floras, 

 need synonyms. We suppose Loph. multiflora to be an abbre- 

 viation and misprint for LopJiodium multiflorum, and Loph. foene- 

 secii is probably to be read L. foenisecii. 



British Wild Flowers. Illustrated by John E. Sowerby, illus- 

 trator of the ' Ferns of Great Britain,' the ' Grasses of Great 

 Britain,' etc. Described, with an Introduction, and a Key to the 

 Natural Orders, by C. Pierpoint Johnson. J. E. Sowcrby, 

 3, Mead Place, Lambeth, S. 



The purport of this new work on the British plants will be 

 clearly understood from the following prospectus, which is here 

 given in extenso : — 



"An illustrated manual of British Botany has long been a desideratum, 

 while the few works hitherto published, containing coloixred figures of all 

 the English wild flowers, are far too voluminous for use in the fields and 

 woods, and too costly to be within the reach of many ; the excellent books 

 of Hooker, Lindley, and Babington, however well adapted for the pro- 

 fessed student of botany, are too technical and elaborate for the purpose 

 of the beginner. ^ 



" The present work will contain carefully drawn figures of every British 

 flowering plant, taken upon a reduced scale from Sowerby's ' English Bo- 

 tany,' including those published in the three volumes of Supplement to 

 that work. A short introduction to the natural orders and genera will be 

 added, with a glossary of botanical terms. 



" The book will comprise eighty plates, each containing twenty figures, 

 forming, with the letter-press, a complete illustrated manual of the British 

 Flora. 



" The Introduction, Key, and Glossary will appear in portions, at inter- 

 vals of two or three months." 



In the first part of this Avork now issued, there are five Orders, 

 or, in stricter terms, all the British species in the Orders Ranun- 

 culaceiB, Berberidaceae, Nymphoiacea, PQpaveraceoi, Fumariaceae, 



