192 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
“woods, lochs and pastures,” in which the vegetation characteristic 
of these is considered. In compiling the Flora proper, the author 
ee help from numerous botanists, but the mork is 
mainly a own personal 
al rd of his rsonal observations during a pro- 
longed esis in the island. This residence has enabled him to 
1 the natives first-hand information as to the Gaelic 
poeaere The Flora as here enumerated, including previous 
ords, amounts to 580 species and 70 varieties of flowering 
ast, ferns, and fern-allies; the number for the whole of the 
Western Isles is about 900. e Flora is something more than a 
orders are prefixed to each. It is, however, to the list that 
botanists will turn for gr sola or ei and in this the 
scientific value of the nhs chiefly co 
which such an undertaking involves. The work does not lend 
itself to an extended review ; it suffices to say that it must form 
an indispensable adjunct to every fungological library. We note 
that volumes 21 and 22 of the Sylloge, forming parts 8 and 9 of the 
oo in which Prof. Saccardo has the assistance of Dr. A. 
Trotter, are announced as in an advanced state of Reeperne 
y S. Botany, 
course, we but a small portion (pp. 67-100) of the book, but 
that portion is exceedingly well done; it includes notes on the 
su 
ges of rambles”—four of them botanisek-weih a gaged 
bibliography ae “an outline calendar.” We think, powreres: 
that some of the species mentioned as having been in troduced 
$ S; we remember that many years ago, while the 
-gipsywort, sku 
saxifrage, and other “ moisture-loving plants” 
were abundant by the ditches which have now been reduced to 
r and skirt aoore ee The book is a model of 
Educational Council, which is responsi le for its roduction, is to 
be complimented on its ‘enterprise : F 
Preparuw -For TT oa fy fe 1. See 
ERRatum. glabra (p. ottom) read U. scabra. 
