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of Genera of all the plants which from one cause or another are 

 not admitted as belonging to the flora of the district, although 

 mentioned in the body of the work ; so that we do not find in the 

 index Pyrola, A&arum, Onobryehis, Polemoniwn, and many more. 

 The Index of English names contains none of the genuine local 

 ones which, as it seems to us, should alone have been included in 

 the book, with possibly the addition of those in general use ; it is 

 certain that " Fries's small-flowered Pearl wort " is no more an 

 English name for Sagina ciliata than is " Bonninghausen's Sedge" 

 for Carex Bccnnint/hauseniana. Mr. Briggs quotes these, and many 

 equally as bad, from the third edition of ' English Botany ' ; but 

 they are, as it seems to us, worse than useless, and we regret their 

 presence in the book as much as we regret the absence of the local 

 ones from the index. 



These minor points, however, are comparatively trifling, and in 

 no way seriously interfere with the value of the book, albeit the 

 deficiencies of the index make the information contained in the 

 volume less easily accessible than we could wish to have been the 

 case. We cannot too strongly recommend the ' Flora of Plymouth ' 

 to our readers, especially to those who may be engaged upon a work 

 of a similar character. J. B. 



Three pamphlets on local Botany have recently been announced 

 as if they were just issued, their titles being :— 1. The Study of 

 Mosses ; with a list of the Mosses of the Wrekin and its environs, 

 intended as a contribution to the Bryology of Shropshire. By 

 Roeeet Anslow. Wellington. 1871. 8vo, pp. 22.-2. Notes on 

 Sutton Park ; its Flowering Plants, Ferns, and Mosses ; to which 

 is added the Koses and Brambles of Warwickshire, By James E. 

 Bagnall. Birmingham. 1877. 8vo, pp. 27.-3. A Guide to the 

 Botany, Ornithology, and Geology of Shrewsbury and its vicinity. 

 % William Phillips and others. Shrewsbury. 1878. 8vo, 

 Pp. 65. — The ' Journal of Botany' cannot be accused of dis- 

 couraging local catalogues, and our complaint is merely levelled at 

 the manner of announcement, which gives the erroneous notion of 

 their being recently issued. The plan adopted by such booksellers 

 as Fischer, of Cassel, of giving the date of publication in each 

 advertisement, is worthy of universal imitation. The second paper 

 on the list was duly noticed in this Journal for 1877 (p. 224). 



The first part has just been issued of the < Arboretum Segre- 

 naxmm : Icones selects Arborum et Fruticum in hortis Segreziams 

 collector um.' It contains six beautiful copperplates by Biocreux 

 and other artists, with descriptive text by M. Alphonse Lavallee. 

 The work will form two large quarto volumes, each containing 

 s ^ty plates ; a fasciculus will be published every three months, with 

 descriptive text, each costing ten francs. 



We are glad to see that the ' Athenamm ' of August 14 directs 

 attention to a new " departure " m the way of printing scientific 

 ^mes, in the last number (205) of the ' Proceedings of the lioyal 

 Society.' The following sentence from p. 502 is a sample ;— " 11 



