278 BRITISH BOTANY. 
of Berkshire, it would have occupied something like 1200 pages; 
as it is, we have an easily portable volume, more than a third 
smaller than Mr. Druce’s book. In order to facilitate use in the 
field, an edition on thin paper has been provided suitably bound in 
limp leather, which is far from dear at its price of 15s. We believe 
avoidance of repetition ; the introductory essays on the geology and 
meteorology, and especially Mr. B. D. Jackson’s ‘historical amt, 
sik é 
in the Flora of Middlesex, localities in which a plant must for very 
not expect to find Siwm latifolium or Ranunculus Lingua ‘‘in the 
ditches between Redriff and Deptford.” A valuable feature of the 
: ry, nor is 
herbarium, or to the biography, including : 
abounds in notes on plants, published by Mr. G. M. Arnold in 
1883. This is the more remark i i 
College, Wye, has kindly sent us particulars. : 
found in a rough bouquet of wild flowers gathered by a child, and 
was a very fine specimen, the spike consisting of upwards of sixty 
