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of the * Flora and Fauna,’ albeit abundant recent material was available. 
Lees’s and Peacock’s work are just referred to, followed by this jumble 
(p. 15.) ‘following Dr. Sympson, in Lincolnshire Geography.’ * The woods 
in all parts glow “with the tender blue of the wild hyacinths ’—blues do: 
not glow at all, by the bye—‘the lly of the valley luxuriates in woods 
near Lincoln, and in Scotter parish.’ ‘The two nightshades are fairly 
common, and the odious henbane is occasionally found. The beautiful 
grass of Parnassus, the marsh gentian, the bog pimpernel, bitterwort ’ 
( ? butter wort mispelt, or felwort ?) and two kinds of smilax occur in 
shady situations.’ This is nigh nonsense,—No Smilax that I know of 
occurs in Britain at all, and neither bryony (black or white), of quite 
different orders, is ever dubbed wild sarzaparilla. The Rev. W. Fowler’s 
discovery of the caraway-leaved milk-parsley is spelled wrongly in a new 
way: Murray had Selinum Carvifloria, Cox has Salinum carvifolium, 
shewing crasser ignorance still, Then, ‘Samphire appears in abundance 
on certain parts of the coast, largely gathered for pickling,’ which really 
refers to the so-called Glasswort, which, when burnt, yielding soda, is 
employed in making bottle glass and soap. ‘Cranberries used to be 
abundant,’ a quite true statement, but founded upon Arthur Young’s 
report in his classic Agricultural Survey of 1799. All this is Inadequacy 
run wild. The arms of Lincoln figure its unique Jris, yet it finds no 
mention. Blyborough Church receives the barest mention (p. 349) in an 
Appendix, its famous and perhaps unique ‘tick’ none at all ; and Linwood’s 
(Lynwode) Grass lacks the interesting detail of the seven-childed wool-_ 
stapler, ‘ food for worms, sic transit gloria mundi.’ Surely an area wherein — 
meet and mingle alpine with lowland plants ; where (at Tydd goit) the 
rare Sea-heath, Frankenia, once grew; where the yellow star Cicendia 
still occurs, W here Thesium and Maianthemum flourish vet, and the tart 
bilberry is not ! deserved fairer treatment than it has been accorded in 
a Twentieth-Century book. One fears to hope, almost, that a second 
Revised Edition may be soon called for.—F. ArNotp LEEs. 
[The archeological section of this work, which is its main part, appears 
to be carefully prepared and reliable : as we should expect it to be.—Ed. |, 
The Invertebrate Fauna of Nottinghamshire, by J. W. Carr, M.A., etc. 
Nottingham: J. and H. Bell, Ltd., 1916. 8vo., cloth, viii--618 pages, 
The County of Nottingham is to be congratulated on its possession 
of a society which has so steadily and continuously worked for a long 
series as has done the Nottingham Naturalists’ Society, which attained 
its jubilee in 1902. Still more is the Society to be congratulated on the 
manner in which it resolved to celebrate the jubilee, the result of which 
is the volume now before us. The County, and the Society, are fortunate 
in the number of sound naturalists and diligent workers who have ac- 
cumulated observations and records for the 5,330 species of invertebrates 
which find record in this volume. But that much remains to be done 
becomes evident, when we consider percentages of the Nottingham lists 
and the British lists. In only three groups does the percentage reach 
half of the British list, the Mollusca (79 per cent.), the Thysanura (80 per 
cent.), and the Neuroptera (64 per cent.). That the percentage of Lepi- 
doptera reaches only 46 per cent. demonstrates clearly that what an old 
Yorkshire entomologist used to call the ‘tinies’ demand their close 
investigation ; but it is not surprising that groups so numerous in species 
as the Coleoptera and the Diptera should have percentages of but 42 per 
cent. and 33 per cent. respectively. The spiders reach 38 per cent., the 
Sawflies 35 per cent., the Ichnenmon-flies 28 per cent. and other groups 
average from 27 per ¢ ent. to 44 per cent., or thereabouts. The impression 
as to he diligence and activity with w hich the county has been worked 
is deepened and confirmed by the perusal of the work itself with the 
necessarily multitudinous details of localities, dates, and authorities which 
constitute it. The full and free citation of localities and details is an 
absolute necessity. The author is to be congratulated on the exceedingly 
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