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groups. By .a curious slip on the part of the —_— the rose 
pie Smid hs 22 is called ‘‘ Blush rane aianaie ei 
periences with many inasny _of roses—whether they bloom freely or 
forth 
satisfactory feature about this section ‘of an otherwise excellent 
Mr. Puestey publishes in The Wimbledon . and artes Annual 
(Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 1904; price 2s. 6d.) an interesting paper 
on «Wimbledon Wild Flowers,” with a list of 572 species, ‘recorded. 
as growing about the Common, in the Park, or on the lower ground 
ten! Gesastt ark at ioce Roth’s Europiiischen Lauhmoose 
(Leipzig : pees lattes 1905. Pp. xvi, 641-733; plates li.-lxii. 
1300 pages of text, ilustrated by 62 plates, on which are figured 
nearly sl mosses ; and it has been vite of th in cs remarkably’ 
for the first t time. This m st prove a very pom boon to students 
- who have not access to a lets herbarium. Still greater would have 
& ors, 
work, As the author has cast his net over the moss-fiora of all 
Europe, the usefulness of his work is | vastly enhanced.—A. G. 
- Cuartes Bamezy publishes in the Memoirs of Manchester 
Literary and Philosophical Society (vol. xlix. part 1) an account of 
the occurrence of Sisymbrium strictissimum L. at Heaton Mersey 
