312 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
places within a convenient distance of the metropolis, where the 
** practical student ” may obtain any specimen of which he happens to 
be in need, than an analysis of the botanical geography of the tract of 
the prescribed limit,* the second a list of selected localities with 
more interesting species to be met with in each of them. ‘It 
earlier 
date than the New Botanist’s Guide,” and “all such localities as 
are in any way doubtful by reason of antiquity ” have been omitted, 
but the pages of Gerard, Ray, and Blackstone ¢ have been freely, 
though perhaps unconsciously, drawn upon, and at second hand, Nor 
ason under the next, and localities standing on one and the same page 
e 
‘New London Flora ;” while some of the most undeniable facts in 
local botany have been needlessly expunged or branded with an 
a complete view of the actual state of the flora within a somewhat 
certain 
various headings, and the all but complete absence of any reference to 
counties is at times perplexing ; indications of this kind when given 
are not unfrequently erroneous, indeed the results of careless copying 
ile: i The 
* The ise radius employed seems to be left rather uncertain. The 
author apologises for the introduction of plants from Southend as beyond the 
limits of thirty or -five miles, 
+ The date of this —Syaaray author is, however, given as ‘* A.D. 1800,” at 
at Asan instance, under Vinca minor localities are given from—Surrey; Essex; 
_- gent; Middlesex; Surrey (2); Essex (2); Surrey (3); Kent (2); Herts; 
Essex (3) ; Herts (2); Surrey (4). S harrat 
