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very competent,” botanist ; and the names of the other helpers are 
even less familiar. 
As a Rormeeinieee of tis isolation, it is to be feared that in such 
genera as Rubus, Rosa, Hieracium, Potamogeton, Carex, and Chara, 
besides mca which might be mentioned, Mr. agian s book will 
be a small value to students, for we find no reference of any sort to 
those who are recognized as authorities upon these critical groups 
of plank. This does not imply, as has been said already, that 
require choking and comparison before oe spe be scented as 
authoritative. In Hier nee for example, the need of some such 
comparison is manifes only on account of the d difficulty | ee 
sented by the species le a because the records of Bac 
house and Baker, which represent at any rate one period in the 
history of our knowledge of Hawkweeds, are placed side by side 
with those of the author, Mr. Friend, and others, whose qualifica- 
tions are not so well known. 
T want of critical method is noticeable in other ways. 
Undoubted aliens and errors, for instance, are placed on exactly 
e we hav maintain 
_— to be said in favour of beat these in their proper sequence 
stead of relegating them to an appendix; but they should be 
differentiated by — of type, absence of number, use of brackets, 
or in some ot ther way. ‘The very — plant in the book, Clematis 
Vitalba, is noted as ‘‘ Alien: an occasional straggler from cultiva- 
tion”; and the localities given suggest ‘that it hardly even ‘ straggles 
from’’ gardens and houses. Then, in the same Order, we have 
Adonis autumnalis, “ & weed 3 in gardens where it has probably been 
an object of cultivation’’ and once seen in a flax crop; Delphinium 
Ajacis and D. mermr siete both species accurately determined ?); 
Actea spicata, “in the grounds” of a ‘mansion, ‘ doubtfull 
native’’; Helleborus juscdies ‘‘a specimen ” in a collection, ‘‘ pro- 
e Ranunculus circinatus, ‘‘ given in Black’ 8 Guide as a p 
of Ullswater,” but doubted by Mr. Baker and not confirmed b 
Mr. Hodgson, and ret by other rs who “ now regard their 
identification as open to doubt;” R. Baudotii, in nog locality, on 
the authority of ay ue oe Wood, an excellent m 
critical botanist; we have also Thalictrum saxatile, ge which Mr. 
Hodgson says ‘‘a solitary plant” gathered by him was eee 
by Mr. Watson as this species, but that he himself ‘ failed to 
cover eed striking difference between this and 7. minus ””—a seal 
worker adds another locality. Even if we accept as accurate all 
the other Batrachian records (many of which seem doubtful) and 
allow that dei i is  napaeanned, it picleare seem that out of thirty- 
as having little or n aE. to rank as dears: portions 7 the Flora. 
An analysis of pra parts of the book yields similar res 
