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it was abandoned forty years ago. Nothing could show ‘more 
plainly how impossible it will be ‘when the Flora is completed— 
and it seems likely that it will now continue uninterruptedly to its 
conclusion—to regard it as a presentment of our knowledge at any 
on riod. Save for one Vaccinium, the 192 pages are entirely 
enough to say that what must have been one of the most difficult 
genera in the whole Flora seems to have been satisfactorily Pe 
with ; the mere making of the keys to the sections, subs 
species, occupying forty pages, must have been a tedious and di dificult 
piece of work. 
have received a copy of the interesting presidential Adare 
on ‘* The History of Botanical Illustration,” delivered b Face 
Jackson at the anniversary meeting of the Hertfordshi Natural 
History Society in March last. We hope to refer to it tata at 
greater length. 
Tne Trustees of the British Museum have issued a new edition 
of Mr. Arthur Lister’s Guide to the British cl dak oa. This has 
been brought up to date by the au we! r, and now extends to forty- 
eight pages. It is, as our readers a mon tah aph and the only 
one existing of the British eh and is fully illustrated. The 
price—8d.—remains the same as in the earlier edition. The Guide 
can be obtained from the British Museum — atural History), Crom- 
well Road, S.W 
A prerriny printed Florula Mortolensis, ‘‘ an enumeration of the 
plants ag! wild at La Mortola,” has been prepared ny order of 
s Hanbury by Mr. Alwin Berger, the curator of his 
iain isda. The list contains a few short but interesting notes, 
ae Trustees of the British Museum have acquired for the 
National Herbarium a very valuable work by Mr. Worthington G. 
Smith on the classification of British Basidiomycetes. The work 
spent many years of labour on its preparation, and Leeann 
the ripe experience gained by a life-long study of these forms: 
British fungus-flora can in future be considered complete which faa 
not profited by careful collation with it. It has been brought fully 
up to date, and includes descriptions, with notes as to habitat, of 
more than 2150 forms, It is thus the natural supplement to the 
unrivalled series of colot ‘ised drawings of Basidiomycetes in the 
possession of the Botanical Department, ws the two together 
form a unique and fully illustrated fungus-fior 
‘* THREE rare specimens of male tree fern, se regalis, of 
over : ,000 years’ “pen have been procured for the Imperial 
ec Gardens of Petersburg from the virgin forests on the 
Black as coast, near Adler,” —Daily Mail, June 7. 
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