334 Lees: The three Graces. 
have occurred; whilst at least two species-names have been 
admitted into the book for which no station of growth is or can 
be given. 
The county of Kent comes not within our purview, but it 
may be worth the pointing out that Kent shares with Lincoln- 
shire the distinction of furnishing a naturalising field for Falcaria 
vulgaris Bernh. (Rivini), No. 688 in the oth edition of London. 
This h 
Catalogue. his handsome-leaved plant, tenacious of life 
through tough quitch-like roots, has established itself near the 
Barracks at ae just as it persists in arable ground at 
Wingham, miles east of Canterbury. Once introduced, 
with peace probably, no ploughshare furrows deeply enough 
to eradicate it. Kent, too, has a few north-country indigens, 
witness Draba muralis, Pyrola minor, Eriophorum vaginatum, 
and others. 
Lord De Tabley’s posthumous Flora of Cheshire demands a 
fuller examination at our hands. The author was both scientist 
and poet, plus a classic scholar and an antiquarian. From such 
a conjunction of capacities we should expect something out-of- 
the-way, perhaps even great—and we get it! The Grant-Duff 
sympathetic memoir shows us what to look for ; Spencer Moore’s 
judicious editing, how to find it ; and, again, with such excellent 
guides we see it at once—a grand picture, broadly pre-explained 
and framed. The unfortunate omission of two common ditch 
and hedge plants, Arenaria trinervia and Myosotis caespitosa, 
noted at once by Mr. W. Whitwell’s customary acumen, do not 
mar the picture to which they are but as a few strokes in 
a corner of the foreground. 
is Flora is charming in style as well as great in character. 
There is a felicity of phrase and allusion in the notes and 
descriptive observations, the essentials without the immaterial 
being subtly arrayed for the reader, which will enable him at 
near view to understand a chine, or glen, or hollow lane much 
better than might be thotight possible ; for Tabley understood, 
like Kingsley, how many and close are the inter-dependencies | 
between soil, configuration, and investiture with apparently 
haphazard kinds and hues of vegetation. It cannot be too often 
repeated that just as geology is the groundwork of scenery, so 
iaindie sa botany enables one to look with enlightenment on 
the coat of many colours worn by Flora in the passing seasons ; 
for ans as Lord De Tabley could not help carrying his botany into 
his verse, so he could not avoid infusing his science description 
with the poetic aroma, thereby —— on both a distinctive 
° Naturalist, 
