80 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
note. The “matter for regret’’ appears to us to lie in the fact 
that the Cambridge Botanic Gardens should conniv e—as it seems 
to have —— the establishing of a foreign plant ‘‘in a wild- 
looking st 
AGROSTIS VERTICILLATA Vill. In ConnwaLt.—On June sos 
mens of Agrostis verticillata, and on comparing my Falmouth 
Docks plant with = [ found they were perfectly identical.— 
F. Haminton Dave 
VIOLA HIRTA X SYLVESTRIS IN HEREFORDSHIRE. — Specimens 
from the limestone of the Great Doward, collected on May 15th, 
1908, were sent to the Botanical Exchange Club by Mr. Ley under 
this name. Mrs. Gregory considered them to be “a very marked 
example of V. Reichenbachiana Reichb. f. villosa.” Last April I 
saw plants in good flower in Mr. Ley’s garden at Brampton 
Abbots, and the evidence in favour of this hybrid origin appeared 
to me quite ee ere Pte of V. hirta is partially lost in 
dryin 2 pS. Mars 
MAL euais bak _ Sir James Stirling writes to say 
that the discovery of the abnormal stems which formed the subject 
of Mr. Hanbury’s note was made by our correspondent Mr. W. E. 
Nicholson. 
REVIEWS. 
Cronologia della Flora ghee ossia Repertorio sistematico delle 
pi antiche date ed autori del rinvenimento delle piante 
( ame e Pteridofite) indigene, naturalizzate e avven 
tizie d'Italia e della introduzione di quelle ae pit 
comunemente coltivate fra not di P. A. Saccarvo.  4to, 
pp. xxxvii. 390. Price 15 lire. Padova: Tipografia del 
Seminario. 
WE regret that circumstances have prevented us from sooner 
calling ietantich to the latest of the many admirable works with 
h, in more than one direction, Prof. § do has enriched 
botanical literature. The two volumes in whic ave us the 
te graphical history of La Botanica in Italia, as he 
) only work with i we can coat the Cronologia— 
and it is comparing a thing with a small—is Mr. W. 
Clarke’s rsh records of Bri British Plants ; but Prof. Saccardo had to 
sieht a far wi , whether we regard t the number of plants 
included in his enumeration or the extent of the literature, begin- 
