152 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Tue Rev. E. F. Linton has now completed the manuscript of a 
Flora of Bourtioanoath, which he hopes to issue before the summer. 
Taking the same radius, of twelve miles, which the late Mr. T. : 
Briggs adopted for his admirable Flora of Plymouth, Mr. Linton has 
divided the district so formed into five divisions, arranged as far as 
may be according to the watersheds. In order to fall in with the 
numbering of the Flora of Hampshire, parts of the first _ 
districts of which lie within the twelve-mile radius, the Sto 
watershed is taken to form Div. 1, with a Dorset and a Hants 
subdivision ; then Div. 2 is the south te of the Avon water- 
; and Di h a 
part of the Isle of Purbeck, and is separated into Div. 4 an 
Div. 5 by the line of the main street ee east and west) ? 
Wareham, a clear and scientific boundary. The usual topics ar 
discussed in intradusiory papers, and the floras of the two iintiok 
ae are — 
Epwarp JosEpH Los om was born at Highfield House, 
Nottinghamshire, n Nov. 1825, —_ at Saceaeton Hall, 
r Chepstow, on ‘the 10th 2 ‘last m nth. He was interested in 
septa branches of science, more ‘capécially in astronomy and 
botany, and was a Fellow of many scientific societies, including the 
Royal Society, to which he was elected in 1867, and the Linnean, 
which he joined in 1857. His principal work among plants was in 
the ia of hybridization, in which his experiments began im 
Le seaman pepe ferns—a discovery ase ; e d 
by Lowe at the meeting of the British Association in 1867, was 
generally diseretited He e ied the results of his numerous 
ae at 
volumes on Uur Native Ferns, noteworthy for the ce of for 
bene eee in 1867; and a Natural History of British reise 
ha first part has been issued of Genera Siphonogamarum ad 
Systema Englerianum conscripta, by Drs. C. G. de Dalla Torre and 
H. Harms: we hope to notice it later. 
ot1on.—On p. 78 of our last issue, line 22 from top, the 
weeds ‘twenty-four in’’ should be inserted before ‘‘ my own.’ 
