52 NOTES AND NEWS. 
cultivated. | It is the species alluded to in Scripture (Matt. xxiii. 23). Av 
M. viridis, is cultivated in gardens. The peppermint is also a doubtful ng 
M. aquatica is softly hairy, with ovate leaves, the glomerules large, pale la 
in colour, the pedicels and flowers very hairy. It isa common plant by waters 
and very strongly scented.’ 
It would be hard indeed, to add anything to this, for what is 
directly stated must inevitably (and safely) be inferred from t 
ample reserve in the words used. Certainly nothing reser be 
out vba distinct loss. 
e of the woodcuts is not quite satisfactory,—the 55th figut 
of ‘nisin Plantago, has the petals relatively too large and crimp 
at the border. On pageg7 Vicia Cracca is said to have ‘bright b “ 
flowers : we should say they are of a vivid violet, rather. On 
210, writing of the two smaller Duckweeds, the seater mig 
facies not being indicated. Z. minor is always green, inclining 
yellowish, whilst Z. gidda can be told at once, yards off the dike 
scums, by its peculiar coppery red hue, and a lumpy appearance d 
to the obese light-floating fronds jostling one another more or le 
out of the water. 
The remarks upon, and the philosophy of the remarkable po 
of self-adaptation to circumstances of the Batrachian group 
Ranunculus, are very well put; the difference of structure in 
air-grown or under-water capillary leaves, and the fact that neith 
kind of dissected leaf can live in the wrong medium, being fu 
explained. The axillary corms in the Pilewort are sufficiently de 
with. 
The work, indeed, is that rare thing—a true mu/tum in parte 
the disciple of Flora.—F. A. Legs 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
We have had the pleasure of receiving a collection of Fossils from the 
Eocene of Barton, etc., sent us by R. Charles, Highcliffe, Christchurch, F 
o ire as i 
discovery of n 3 on 
will he practically encouraged in his abanaee 
