58 
Hew Publications, 
The Young Collector’s Handy Book of Botany. By pn 
UNsTER, M.A. London: L. Reeve and Co. 1871. 
flowers, so-called ” (p. 20) 
— * Comm 
on Flaxz.—This beautiful blue flower is an annual, growing 
, about 18 inches high. Its inflorescence forms a sort of panicle. Some 
writers say it is not one of our native field flowers, but was intron 
from Egypt. It is, however, very common, and its uses numerous and 
1d.). 
€€ Spo 
tted Persicaria.—A most beautiful marsh plant " (p. 25). 
like an Iris than a Rush 
These extracts will give a better idea of the contents of this singular — 
book than any words of ours could convey. It is the worst of its ki 
that we have ever had the misfortune to notice. J. B. 
aaea a a SASA NER MN ND 
British Local Floras. 
: h 1 ncluding part of Mr. Key's * Flora of Devon " 
Cornwall? is published, containing the Orders from Labiate to the end o 
the vascular Cryptogams, 
county. The same may be “i 
etertavy, Dartmoor, but it is desira? 
nfirmed by other botanists. With reference 10 
nes radicans in the north of Cornwall, the author adds something 
eady stated in our pages (Vol. IX. p. 174). The 
t 
: : r. C. Prentice giving 
more details of his di ery of Scirpus triqueter in Cornwall will be 
found at p. 45 of our present number, Ee 
Mr. Britten has published in the “Transactions of the Newbury District 
“ Flowering Rush.—Few things are more handsome than the Flowering 
Rushes which we meet with at the water’s edge. ‘The foliage is so rich ; 
and beautiful, the colouring of the flowers so various, that what 1s pio 
. perly called the bog Asphodel, with its flowers of golden yellow, is more — 
(p. 21 
din i 
