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dale and Newlands,” adding later ‘ P. alpestris ?,’”” an uncertainty 
arg in Cyb. Brit. i. 848. P. — is he records from “ Vale 
ewlands,” and it peers in Top. Bot. with a mark of certainty. 
The Rumex stands — on the old stholity of Hutchinson’s History 
of Cumberland. As we hinted in our review, Mr. Hodgson’s pains- 
ing work must be saasceaed rather as an important contribution 
to our knowledge of Cumberland plants than as a complete history 
of the botany of the oo —Ep. Journ. Bor.]} 
XBAUMIA APHYLLA IN WORCESTERSHIRE. — This rare and in- 
and is, I think, fairly 2 aig our station being some few yards 
+. Dance’ 8 original one. It would be on for the Sie 
shire Sa to hunt for it on their side of Dowles Brook, as it 
Ha; 
bibliography, for it is the most complete and creflly graduated 
colour-scheme which has ae ae re me. ‘he seven plates are 
browns, and ft ae neutral grey is absent; this emphasizes one 
difficulty felt in the description of natural aoaia, the extreme 
wealth of variation in their coloration. A simple method of notation 
enables the user to identify the colour-patch selected as matching 
the required tint. inally, I ma e cheapness of the work, 
priced, I believe, at fifty cents (= two shillings), the sum which 
Sasol 8 Chromotawxia costs in London.—B. Daypon Jackson. 
