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THE THREE GRACES. 
F..ARNOLD LEES, M.R.C.S., 
Leeds, 
Flora of Cumberland. By Wm. Hodgson, 1899. 
Flora of Cheshire. By the late Lord De Tabley (Hon. J. B. Leicester 
Warren), Edited by SPENCER Moore. Witha Pest 4 Notice of the 
Author by Sir M. E. Grant DurFF. 8vo., cl., pp- cxiv., 399. Port., Map. 
1899. Longmans. Price ros. 6d. net. _ 
Flora of Kent: being an account of the Flowering Plants, Ferns, ete., 
with notes on the Topography, Geology, and Meteorology, and a History 
of the Botanical Investigation of the County. By F. J. Hanbury, F.L.S., 
and E, S, Marshall, M.A., F.L.S.  8vo., pp. Ixxxiv., 444. Two Maps. 
1899. Hanbury, 37, Lombard Street. 12s. 6d. 
Here are three Graces, indeed! arrayed in all pride by their 
begetters, charming as ‘the three maids of Lee,’ yet differing 
from one another in their respective complexions as blonde from 
brunette, yet of course somewhat alike, as fair sisters should 
be, in their general features. Yet they differ in consistency and 
character as Kentish chalk from Cheshire cheese. he Cum- 
brian one is the poorest, maybe in part because least worked ; 
Lord Tabley’s florograph is like his own rich buttercupped fields 
and well-preserved woods, utilitarian from cover to cover, but 
a pictirasane product for all that, with the smack of a natural 
Sub-acid ‘green fade’ through its every part; whilst Messrs. 
Hanbury and Marshall’s flower-picture is opulent with parti- 
coloured detail, stippled in with a painstaken technic—the 
completest phyto-historically and most up to date of the three. 
With the Cumbrian work it is not necessary to go into 
detail here. Certain vital omissions have been made which will 
doubtless form the subject of a special enumeration else- 
where. would just say, here, only, that it is rather a skeleton 
than a full-built body, not up-to-day in its nomenclature, and 
ten in number, viz. ; Myosurus minimus, Arabts petrea, Astragalus 
eiveypils, Lathyrus palustris, Potentilla vhs sangha Statice rart- 
a, Rumex aquaticus, Goodyera repens (Hutton’s old authority 
ecg by an Armathwaite specimen!), Apzpactis violacea 
(Prof. Babington’s authority), and Pocamogeton Zisii. e of 
these may have become extinct through that Ichabodic change 
in the sum total of locality-epvironment which is subtly affecting 
the items in the flora of areas all over this country; but all 
November 1899. 
