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The same or a similarly constructed apparatus is present in 

 several other British spiders (sometimes, too, in both sexes), 

 but not always in the position described above, being sometimes 

 on the falces and palpus or cephalothorax. 



In the female, the convexity of the epigynal area extending 



above and on each side of the orifice is finely but distinctly 



transversely ribbed. As this feature is very unusual amongst 



British spiders, being most prevalent in the genus Erigone, 



it will, therefore form a most important discriminatory character 



in the determination of this sex of Eboria. The genus Erigone, 



however, is very distinct, and no member of it can possibly be 



confounded with the present species. 



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Check List of Lincolnshire Plants, by E, A. Woodruffe-Peacock, F.L.S., 



F.G.S. 66 pp. ' This pamphlet claims no merit, except that it is a practical 

 study, a sign-post on the way to a flora ... It is an analysis ... of 

 some 500,000 observations.' By a series of figures and signs, the distribu- 

 tion of the plants of Lincolnshire is clearly indicated in the closely-printed 

 pages forming this pamphlet. In view of the lines upon which the Lincoln- 

 shire Union is working, viz., that of fllling up blanks in the lists for the 

 various divisions of the county, this pamphlet will prove most useful. There 

 is nothing to show who has printed the list, but whoever it is, he apparently 

 cannot distinguish between the letter ' o ' and the figure ' o,' as both are 

 used indiscriminately. We also notice that the pamphlet is headed 

 ' Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union Transactions, 1909, part I.' There is 

 nothing to shew that it was published in 1910, and this makes at least the 

 third ' Part I.' of this Society's Transactions, and we can't say whether this 

 is Part I. of a new volume, part I. of the Check List, or part I. of a new 

 series of monographs. In a future publication it would perhaps be as well 

 to give a bibliography of the various publications issued by the Lincoln- 

 shire Union ; as it is, a reference to " part I.' in years to come, will take 

 some finding. 



Field and Woodland Plants, by W. S. Furneaux. Longmans, Green & 

 Co. London, 1909. pp. xvi. and 383. 6/- net. 



This volume is the fifth by the same author of the ' Outdoor World 

 Series.' Its aim is to give descriptions of common plants in non-technical 

 terms, and we may say that these are fuller and freer from errors than one 

 usually finds in books of this kind ; the illustrations, too, are so numerous 

 and usually so characteristic that many of the plants commonly met with 

 may be identified. In addition to the many figures from photographs and 

 drawings, fifty-two species are given in colour on eight plates. Some of 

 the figures, however, are misleading, e.g., on p. 62 is a photograph of an 

 exotic cultivated species of Barberry to illustrate the wild one mentioned 

 in the text. An introductory chapter deals with an account of the parts 

 of a plant, and the general characters of the main orders. In the following 

 chapters the species are described according to the seasons Spring, Summer 

 and Autumn, and in each case further grouped according to habitat. The 

 study of wild flowers from the point of view of habitat is one of the most 

 tempting as well as most promising, and there is plenty of room for a work 

 dealing with this aspect of field botany. Unfortunatel}' the author has 

 missed the point entirely, he has apparently given little attention to the 

 subject himself, and so we frequently find that ' habitat ' resolves itself 

 into the heading of a chapter, without further comment, while the species 

 included are often not characteristic of the habitat he gives. Failing this, 

 the book is well got up, and will prove useful to beginners and others 

 requiring a simple account of our wild plants. 



Naturalistr 



