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appearance on the Cheshire racemes just north of Bitkebeed, 
about Bidston Junction, where several lines converge; I ca 
remember some twelve years ago ee was none of it he ere, thongh 
I had met with a plant or two occurring by themselves and not in- 
Bony some miles away in other parts of Wirral.”—Ep. Journ. 
of V for collected by Mr. Prichard in Pa tag, was 
(Journ. Bot. 1904, 870) /. sohesineg a name en cooskgiid 
I therefore propose to call the species V. Prichardi.— 
IPARIS LonGIPES Lindl. — Mr. J. Sparkes has sent to the 
National Herbarium, for determination, a specimen of this orchid, 
tubers of which he received ‘Work the Johnstone River, North-east 
sly kno 8 
the Queensland eat are slightly larger than in Asiatic specimens, 
with the recurved end of the lip broader and blunter than usual, 
N 
Bot. 1899, 339). The plant, which Mr. Sparkes received quite 
sprees years ago, has recently flowered at Ewhurst, Surrey.—A. B. 
ORRECTION.—In the report of the meeting of the Linnean 
saeay A as aA 1904, 390), the Park ‘¢ Brent Down ” should 
an Dow = s Ray’s in beginning 
(in ssaline of Heliantheniem rolifolium), and it has been copied by 
Smith, Withering, Dillenius, and others. Doubtless the confusion 
arose on account of the neighbouring parishes of East and South 
Brent, but there is also a parish of Brean, in which, of se ve Be 
outlying spur of carboniferous limestone stands,—H. 8. Tuompson. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Flora MA een tests the Isle of Wight. New Edition, with 
us Additions. By Frepericx Townsenp, M.A., F.L.S., 
he, Tw vis ‘igbeil ‘a map. Demy 8vo, cloth, pp. xxxvili, 
658. Price 21s. Lovell Reeve & Co. 
Mr. TownsEnp, who has lately ee his eighty-first year, is 
to be congratulated on this second edition of the excellent local 
flora published more than twenty years ae and then noticed at 
some length in this Journal (Journ. Bot. 1883, pp. eas a 
Mr. Archer Briggs, himself the author of one of the best work 
the same class. During these twenty years Mr. Tov 
Rubus, the numbers of which fave been more than doubled— 
JouRNAL or Borany.—Vou. 43. (Jax. 1006] — 
