284 NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 
in another edition. We are glad to note that ‘‘ Huds.” is sub 
stituted for “ Li.” as the authority for Trifolium medium. In a fi 
cases the records in this Journal, which are as a rule referred era in 
important cases, seem to have been overlooked: e.g., the range of 
Barbarea stricta in the London district extends considerably beyond 
the ‘‘ Thames near Kew” (see ‘ Journ. Bot.,’ 1871, p. 213; 1878, 
p. 847); the Somersetshire station for Althaa hirsuta (where 
r. Baker considers 1 e native,” | 
p- 858) should have been added, as well as the Kent recall. for 
Lathyrus hirsutus (ib., 1878, p. 247) ; there is no mention 0 
(ib., 1876, p. 22), and seemingly at least - notew orthy as his 
Asters might have been increas ed by as nee ‘hint has long 
been quite at home in various localities near London (ib., 1870, 
p. 8); and Mr. French revel clearly (ib., 1875, p. 292) that Salvia 
io atensis i in Oxfo a was sate no means restricted to the single 
ve ‘ 
f this genus, Prof. Babington says that ‘‘ when the continental 
plants are better known, it is feared that considerable changes of 
nomenclature will be necessary”; while of tosa e writes, “ We 
want a ose —— of this genus.” Ononis has received 
O 
important r . arvensis, L., is stated to ie ssipiitennd 
while 0. ssehion Koch, is not so; of the former, two forms are 
oY “ea ular, fll. e ling or cal., p 
shorter than calyx.—. maritima: glandular-villose, fi.—l. fallin 
sh al., pod as long or longer tha : utlets”’ is 
substituted for “‘nuts’”’ in the descriptions of the of Labiate 
‘ st 
have attracted our notice (apart from the introduction of new 
species and others already mentioned) will be found in the genera 
— asia, Utricularia, E'pipactis, Potamogeton, Zannichellia, and 
isecold savour of os eg or were we to compliment Professor 
Babington upon his work. But we may be allowed to congratulate 
British botanists upon the fac ¢ that the writer who has done more 
than anyone else to encourage the critical study of British plants, 
during a period extending over more than forty years is still 
wor. king i in their interest. J. B. 
We have received from the authors, Messrs. Chas. F. Wheeler 
and Erwin F. Smith, a well-printed and handy ‘ Catalogue of the 
Phenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of Michigan, 
indigenous, oe pipe ss adventive. The number of species 
enumerated is 1684; y additions are expected, as some parts 
of the State basis rhe rikehy sited by botanists. The Catalogue 
contains one new species, Salice glaucophylla, M. 8. Bebb; and is 
