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by him in the Serra de Monchique. Although this list, which contains 
42 species, adds, with the exception of Airichum undulatum and the 
tion by Count Solms, of whose excursions the author, as he tells us, was 
a constant sharer, we have great pleasure at welcoming a Portuguese who, 
first since his celebrated countryman Brotero, is paying an earnest 
. explorations into the many districts of Algarvia not yet visit d by any 
bryologist, amongst which we may particularly mention the whole western 
coast from Cape St. Vincent to Odesseixe, and also the territory along 
the right bank of the River Guadiana, between Azinhal and Alcoutim. 
In concluding this account of what I find published on the bryological 
flora of Portugal, it should be mentioned that both Professor Willkomm 
and M. Bourgeau have visited some parts of Algarvia, but I am unac- 
quainted with any publication relative to the bryological materials brought 
home from their respective travels. 
If I have extended this review somewhat beyond the space generally 
permitted to bibliographical notices, I may perhaps be excused when the 
rarity of publications on the cryptogamic flora of the Pyrenean Sox cnm 
to a future thorough investigation of its geographical relations with North 
Africa and the neighbouring Atlantic Islands on the one side, and on the 
other side with the more northern parts of Western Europe, and with the 
British Islands. 
F. WELWITSCH. 
Botany for Beginners: an introduction to the study of plants.— By 
Maxwz,L T. Masters, M.D., F.R.S.—London, 1872 (pp. 185). 
Surely there would be little difficulty in acquiring the elements of 
ry. The subject, 
too, has been approached in so many different ways, that it might be 
of plant-construction." This he has attempted to do by taking first in 
rse the very si 
Æ 
y more complica 
Elm, Tulip, Hyacinth, Apple, Wall-flower, Rose, &c., the Composita, 
Orchids and Grasses coming last. i intl 
but experience must show whether it is better to thus faviliarise 
the student at once with flowers whose structure, though apparently 
Veiga. Jornal da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, No. vi., Maio, 1869, 
pag. 124-127. 
