278 NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
y Mr. H. S. Fisher, the more interesting plants found in the excursions 
of the Society having been Poterium muricatum, in a wood (?) near 
Caewrys; Myosurus minimus, on the gravel-drive in front of the hall at 
Vale Royal Gardens; Polygala calcarea, at Bala; Alyssum incanum, a 
Rostherne, Cheshire; and Verbascum Lychnitis, at Caergwrle. The 
* Flora of Liverpool’ has just been issued by the Club; we shall give a 
part contains the Calyciflore, and is made very useful by means of ana 
lytical keys to the genera and species, with brief descriptions, which have 
J. B. 
How Plants Behave: how they Move, Climb, Employ Insects to work 
for them, ete. By Asa Gray. New York, Ivison and Co., 1972. 
(pp. 46.) 
This little volume forms a second part of Professor Gray’s ‘ Botany 
for Young People,’ the first part of which, ‘How Plants Grow, was 
written fourteen years ago. It does not profess to be more than an out- 
somewhat of 
intended for advanced students. 
The three chapters are devoted to movements of plants, the relation- 
These subjects are treated briéfly and clearly, in a popular, and per T 
rather exaggerated style. The first chapter is, of course, mainly an al 
stract of Darwin’ ati : . In the 
second we have the various arrangements for cross-fertilization 10 
res; as well as 
y d its 
its pollen-dusted body against the stiema." at the apex of the long st 
and so fertilizes the fae a e e pæ 
The third chapter contains notes on pitchers and fly-traps, "i 
