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confirms this, and further adds that Lindley after the puree 
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sent to Martius) the manuscript name of 
R. pruinosa. R. hibernica M. Crépin is disposed to regard as a hybrid 
tn four volumes). EWETT 
Printed for private distribution only. 1872. (pp. 213.) 
pendium,”’ published in three “Parts,” in the years 1868, 1869, 1870, 
each of which was duly noticed in these pages. In that work the 
species of British plants were traced simply through the eighteen 
pri “ provinces ” into which the author divides Great Britain. It 
was in fact a condensed and amended edition of the original Cybele. 
In the “ Supplement,” which appeared in 1860, the distribution was ex- 
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cations from other botanists. It seems important to remember this in 
using the volume. . 
The author’s remarkable powers of judicious concentration of his 
matter are very conspicuous in his treatment of the immense number 
of facts marshalled in these pages. In the first part of the book, to p. 111 
(the second portion will be presently alluded to), the whole space 
all to each species is but two i 
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