820 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Villarsia, and Hi yaroehinria were naturalized in the Isle of Wight by 
Dr. Salter in a small pool at Barretts, about two miles from Ryde, 
on the Brading road. This locality, which I have not visited, can 
l ew miles from Sandown, and it is possible that the 
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fact of its having been introduced in some way from the old 
locality. This species, being only wrest rena wild in the eastern 
counties, has of course no claim to be con prmeeaoes in 
bite t, but = app aren tly spontaneous occurrence 
‘séaid furnish sy ieee on the tak Near the Red Cliff, 
Sandown Bay, I found several plants of the beautiful Lathyrus 
Nissolia, not previously noted for South Wight.—A. Bruce Jackson. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Iliustrations of the Botany of Captain Cook’s Voyage Round the World 
in . ‘Endeavour’ in 1768-71. By the Right Hon. Sir 
Josera Banks, Bart., K.B., P.R.S., and Dr. Danren sid 
F.R.S. With Determinations by James Brirren, 
Senior Assistant, Departm ent of Botany, British Museum 
Australian Plants. Part I. London: Printed by Order of 
the Trustees of the British Museum. Sold by Longmans, &c. 
Large ie pp. a, a8 Plates, 
p. k 
have the first instalment of ~ ae of the voyage, issued by the 
Trustees of the British Muse A hundred and eighteen years 
of Mr. Brit 
The 0 delay i in ponies a results of the voyage arose, no 
doubt, from the occupation of Banks and Solander in preparing to 
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tended connection with this second voyage: “ This report,” he says, 
in a letter to Ellis, dated 22 Oct. 1771,* “has affected me so much, 
as a entirely to deprive me of sleep. How vain are the hopes 
0 n! Whilst the w ole botanical world, like myself, has been 
pakane for the transcendent benefits to our science from the un- 
rivalled exertions of your countrymen, all their matchless and 
truly julia eed collection, such as has never been seen before nor 
may ever be seen again, is to be put aside untouched, to be thrust 
into some aunt to become perhaps the prey of insects and of 
* Correspondence of Linneus, i. 267. 
