AN ELEMENTARY TEXT-BOOK OF BOTANY. : 41 
local workers. eo these accessories are carefully and—so far a 
the observations in climate are concerned—even elaborately aaah 
out ; it is ne ie thronghont the wre that Mr. Hart has 
spared sing time nor pains in its compilatio 
plants : in the , but we are glad to see that Mr. Hart does not 
encumber nonenelatate by bestowing names u r 
indicat peen ep in obtaining Mr. Hanbury’s help 
firms Arabis ciliata as a Donegal plant: we are inclined to agree 
with the authors of the Irish Cybele (who do not give it for Donegal) 
that this plant is ‘‘very doubtfully entitled to sub-specific rank.” 
The naturalization of Veronica peregrina as a garden weed and the 
phenomenal rapidity of its r Preroduytion suggest that this may in 
time extend itself beyond cultivation and become an integer of the 
local flora. Another complete fen iisation is Mimulus luteus of 
example of those scattered through the book:—‘‘This species is 
more effective than any other bog plant in overgrowing and filling 
up shallow boggy lakes. Growing from the margin outwards, it 
speedily spreads a mat over the surface of the water or soft mud 
which in time harbours hor species and at length converts to peat. _ 
a i epen Pp 
reproduction. The quantity of Gtekboan ~ be seen flowering bears 
a ge small proportion to that occurring barren.” We are glad to 
that Mr. Hart does et feel it incumbent on him to has a 
he 
Journal is now in its thirty-seventh year. ‘‘ Proc. R.I.A.” is scarcely 
more useful: indeed, it must be allowed that this eaten of the 
Flora has been practically neglected, to the detriment of the work 
as a whole. With this exception, the book, which is creditably 
printed although many misprints have escaped notice, is a valuable 
addition to our steadily increasing series of local floras. 
An Elementary Text-book of Botany. By Sypyny H. Vinzs, M.A., 
D.Sc., F.R.S. 8vo, pp. xv, 611, with 897 figures in the text. 
London : Soumanaebiese: 1898. Price 9s. Weight 2]b. 8 oz. 
Tue preparation of this work was undertaken to meet a demand 
which appeared to exist: for a less bulky and expen volume 
than the author’s Student’s Text-book of Botany. The new book is 
intermediate in size ue the last English edition j A: Prantl’s 
