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of these is desirable, and we suspect some error with regard os 
such plants as Kpilobium alpinum, Eriophorum gracile, and on 
or two more. Mr. Griffith notes that the middle of Sees 
is the best time for collecting the Anglesea Helianthemums, 
Hi. guttatum and pe rewert; he adds, ‘‘ The botanist must try to 
get [them] 3 in the morning, as the petals rae drop off before three 
p-m.; the flower sly lasts about six hours.” The best time to 
get Lloydia is nhs the 10th to the 18th of “Tune. We hope that 
Mr. Griffi 
ry Unuyetr, B.Sec., has recently eae a i tle 
est 
volume entitled ‘Rambles of a Naturalist round Folkes * to 
which are appended various local lists, n 
flowering plants and ferns containing about seven hundred species 
spe to familiarise children with some of the more note- 
WE have west the third part of Dr. Braithwaite’s ‘ Britis h 
Moss-Flora,’ containing the Polytrichacee. Both plates and letter- 
press continue to justify the high expectations formed of them; and 
we are glad to notice certain improvements in the siaccaen of 
the latter which add materially to the readiness with which the 
work ack be consulted. 
Wr e also received Mr. A. R. Wallace’s interesting volume 
' Toland Life. and hope, if our space will permit, pret to bring 
some extracts from it before the notice of our reader: 
Mr. W. Maruews has reprinted from the ‘ Transitions of the 
Birmingham Philooaphionl Society’ his paper ‘The Flora of 
Algeria considered in relation to the piven! history of the 
ar 
Gar of Engler’s ‘ Beisieaie’ Fine issued in July 
last, nai an important paper.on the geographical distribution 
of the: Juncacee, by F. Buchenau, the first part of an exhaustive 
monograph of Lythracea, on E. Koehne, and contributions to the 
knowledge of Aracea, by A. Engler. 
