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[Volume Third). 



Even while the present volume has been going through 

 the press some few further notes and remarks have become 

 requisite or useful, in reference to a few of the species 

 treated in it, and may in part be added here. Since the 

 remark about a ' British and Foreign Cyhele ' was in type 

 (page 2), followed by an allusion to the relations between 

 British and European botany, a volume has appeared 

 beai-mg the ambitious title of ' The Vegetation of Europe, 

 its Conditions and Causes,' by Mr. Arthm- Henfrey. It 

 mainly consists of a series of extracts and abstracts, trans- 

 lated fi-om the geogi-aphico-botanical writings of Em-opean 

 botanists ; and though it is thus a patch- work book, rather 

 than a genuine work on the subject, it may be recom- 

 mended for perusal as an epitome of what has been done 

 by other men, and appropriated to a publisher's pui-poses 

 by Mr. Henfi-ey. Few of those who are likely to read 

 the book, will perceive how very little of it has been pro- 

 duced by its Title-page Author. Had the Writer been 

 more faithful in acknowledguig the sources of his in- 

 formation derived fi-om foreign works, this intimation of 

 borrowed plumage would not have been given here. I 

 object not to quotations the most ample ; but, on ac- 

 count of their injustice and deception, I do object 

 strongly to appropriations if not fully acknowledged. 

 1160. Juncus compressm, vol. iii. p. 47. 

 In reference to tliis rush Mr. Hort writes me, " Do not 

 most of the localities given for this, belong to the species 

 or variety Gerardi ? I have never gathered the time J. 

 compressus." This question I am unable to answer with 

 any confidence. The use of the name by authors and 

 collectors would go to show J. compressus about equally 



