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Field-Club? a summary of what he has been able to collect on the botany 
of Berkshire. As no catalogue of the plants of this county has been 
hitherto printed, the present will form a good groundwork for a more 
complete Flora, which must be the work of resident botanists. The 
list contains 844 species 
introductions. It is followed by detailed localities for the more interesting 
r species. It is likely that further research will considerably extend 
the number of Berkshire plants, as it will certainly trace with greater 
trated by 
divided by the author, which are quite artificial ones. Mr. Britten has 
requested us to state that he will be glad to receive any additions or cor- 
A. G. 
More, published in our last volume, has been reprinted, with some addi- 
tions, by the author. A list of 120 species is given which occur on the 
mainland of Hampshire, but are absent from the Isle of Wight, no less 
shown to be much more strongly marked on the mainland than in the 
critical species, especially of Rubi and Roses, and 28 Mosses. A list o 
the “Scale Mosses and Liverworts,” also by Mr. Bagnall, is given; and 
Proceedings of Societies. 
LITERARY AND PuiLosoPHICAL Society OF MANCHESTER.— 
Oct. 9th, 1871.—Joseph Baxendell, F.R.A.S., in the chair.—** Notices of 
several recently-discovered and undescribed British Mosses.” By G. E. 
Hunt, Esq. Gymnostomum calcareum, N. and H., var. brevifolium, B. 
and S. Gymnostomum viridulum, Bridel. Perennial ?, dioicous ; stems 
cæspitose, sparingly branched, very slender, a third of an inch in height, 
of a reddish-brown colour below, upper part pale green, slightly glaucous ; 
leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, with erect bases, thence spreading, papil- 
lose, margin crenulated in the upper part; cells in fhe upper portion of 
the leaf opaque, quadrangular, in the lower portion elongated, subdiapha- 
