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devoted to an account of the ‘Wild Flowers and Seaweeds of 
Milford,” and is printed and published by Mr. E. W. Hayter, of 
Pp 
number. The contents are various: Miss Hylda Bruce writes on 
‘some of the wild flowers”; these include “ about 30 varities (sic) 
of Vetch ""—a name under which the context shows she groups all 
the Leguminose: a “ list of wild flowering plants,” which contains 
406 species, follows—this ends with the Natadacea, and is thus in- 
complete. Then come some “notes on the botany,” by the Rey. A. H. 
Messrs. Dent & Co. send us a pretty book—Swmmer Flowers 
of the High Alps—by Mr. Somerville Hastings, already favourably 
nown by his two little volumes on Alpine Plants at Home. I 
these as in this the illustrations are from photo hs, but in the 
volume now before us they are from “ direct colour photographs,” 
of which thirty-nine are given. Taken as a whole they are ex- 
cellent ; the letterpress moreover—two pages to each plate, with 
when 
coloured, may give a very e€ impression. In the present 
volume, for example, the grey-blue of Gentiana acaulis conveys 
too, is in many instances not characteristic—e. g. Hrinus alpinus 
i i e onitum 
Cirsium spinosissimum. It remains to be said that the volume, a 
small quarto 
pages (86 to end) definitely dealing therewith, there is a chapter on 
