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nomenclature is that rips es _in the last edition of the 
London Catalogue, which has one instance been followed 
rred as a 
errors of diagnosis may be suspected. Cerda curta does not seem likely 
to occur in a hedge at Totteridge.* C. teretiuscula trom the Paddington 
Fae is paren C. paradoxa, noticed there by Mr. Warren (Cf. vol. ii,, 
N.S8., p. 380). Crepis paludosa is very hapebaiie to say the least of i it, 
plentiful about Woolwich and Erith. Bromus racemosus is not usually 
a plant of ‘‘ hedgebanks in wt and shady places’; nor is B. com- 
mutatus to be fous in the experience of everyone ‘‘in lanes, every- 
where.” The station quoted for Fumaria ‘ pallidiflora ?” from the 
**Flora Hertfordiensis,” was subsequently ascertained by Mr. Coleman 
to belong to F. micrantha. Euphorbia portlandica in Charlton Wood, 
derived from old authority through the medium of Cooper, might well 
have been omitted altogether. Many o other statements of an : equally 
doubtful character might be instanced. 
is first part of the Flora-has besides been made the vehicle 
for the introduction of various critical remarks, which, in addition to 
requ 
it f atson, and have occasionally suffered much in trans- 
mission. Other attempts at the imitat f the same characteristic 
e e u A instances will suffice 
Callitriche truncata is appar wel massed with C. hamulata, and 
variety” of #. seeks ae and with i t H. murorum is *‘ confounded 
possibly at times;” Ulex nanus is an ‘fold name, now applied to the 
stunted prostrate form in a pee sense ;” Vzola canina, which is found 
‘* with var. ag gig! in similar situations,’”’ is a mere variety of the 
cedi atica (olim canina).” V. lactea is ‘a variety 
only of the last” —, a). ‘* The student should gather these Dog 
Violets from various localities and compare them with one another, 
and with the descriptions in the books.” Potamogeton zoster folius is 
: peas ety of gf rae usillus, &c., ke. The terms “ incidental” and 
bscurity ”’ y an improvement upon Mr. Watson’s — 
e own phra Said while the yh ae of the frequently re 
and of the ve umerous marks of doubt do “tek 
m 
The “acquaintance with the subject” that is “indispensable to the 
student” has in this case surely heen very ‘‘ partial” indeed. 
he second part of the ‘* Flora” is an amplification of the 
work of Cooper, and combines a re-examination of the old 
localities, with the addition of much original matter. It will 
doubtless be useful to the holiday etotiiabaist of prea re 
who will do well to make it his vade mecum; but here. 
absence of arrangement adds diedk to the difficulty of ‘consulting 
* Tn the second however, this sedge appears to be referred to the neigh 
Pioaie, while C, divulsa takes its place at Totteridge. Cf. pp. 12, 
118, 120, 
