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ac varieties to the Watson Club and one hundred and forty-one 
to the B.E.C., only twenty-eight being sent to both. I find more- 
over er the plants sent in duplicate to the two Clubs formed in 
1906 only one-fifteenth of the total contributions, and in 1908 less 
han one-thirteenth. It is thus proved conclusively that there 
would be little saving of labour by amalgamation, and the work of 
distribution would be quite beyond the power of any on 
Such a combined Club would, in fact, be completely unmanageable 
by voluntary work unless the numbers were greatly reduced. In 
addition, it may be stated that the Watson Club gives gape 
encouragement to botanists who are not so advanced, but who, we 
hope, may be helped to become the critical botanists of the pee 
to the Watson, ‘and it is a, noticeable that no member 
has written in favour of it—GrorcE Goopr, Hon. Sec. Watson 
Botanical Exchange Club. 
REVIEWS. 
Flora descriptiva é illustrada de Galicia. Por el R. P. BALTASAR 
Merino, 8.J. Three volumes, 8vo. Santiago. Vol. i., 1905, 
pp. Ixxii., sont = ii., 1906, pp. 636; vol. iii., 1909, pp. 695. 
Prices 9, 9, a pesetas, respectively. 
SPANISH Galicia a now got a thoroughly useful, satis- 
factory and, indeed, a handsome work on its flowering plants and 
that is cryptogams. The area contains abies 2,935,506 esate 
greatest lengil is about 201 peeing pes its sreatest breadth 
ab: 5 kil ometers. It is traversed from east to west by a con- 
Sekine vat the great Pyrenean and Cantabrian ~_ of mountains, 
F greatest altitude being rather above 2000 meters. The climate 
quable, ‘ae the interior, owing 
to the high elevation, has a wide range of temperature. ral 
fall is exceptionally large, and snow lies on some of the higher moun- 
tains during a large portion of the year. The soil is on se whole 
fertile, and the produce very varied; the mineral resoure s also 
are considerable, and to some extent were known to the eet eas 
The flora therefore may be expected to prove interesting and fairly 
rich i oa its constitution. 
his book, with the exception of the new = ge and other 
nibveltion, the “it oi are entirely in Spanish, a s well as, the 
sess of the, information, Mee | ackn 
element the swcndaebi peg by A. Jobin and included in 
H. Coste’s Mise descriptive et illustrée de France, Father Merino 
“A prefixed a ocabulary of technical terms illustrated with the 
453 figures. Then follows an eo tie dokatininassod of the 
