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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
The Flora of Leicestershire, ineluding the Cryptogams, with Maps of 
the County. Issued by the Leicester Literary and Philo- 
_ sophical Society. London: Williams & Norgate. 8vo, 
xxvi. 873. 
Tuts latest addition es our poonnty floras possesses some note- 
worthy features. The first is one which is presented to us on the 
titl : 
been compil y a sub- committee of the Leicester Literary 
Philosophical Society, consisting of Messrs. F E. F. 
C. W. Cooper, T. Canter, and J. E. M. Finch, ‘on the basis of 
a. Me. pre ared in 1852 ee the late Rev. W man, which 
by a new foot; but this prominent lg of Mr. ( 
of the. work has fallen upon Mr. Mott, the chairman of the aa 
committee, who has long been known ss a worker in botany, and 
whose published work dates va to 1843 
As the preface reminds us, the only Flora of Leicestershire 
ila Po was that by Miss Mary Kirby, which appeared 
0. Mr. man paid much attention to the subject, for, in 
addition to the us on which the present Flora is founded and the 
catalogue prepared by him for White's ‘ Directory of cure oe 
there is in the Department of Botany of the British Museum 
** Synopsis of the eres of os ” (formerly the property of of 
the W. W. Newbould), prepared by him with much 
this the county is divided into =e parts, and the distribution of 
each species re in tabular form ; there are also pave lists of 
The districts correspond with those ot ihe present Flor: 
The. ritie ed in e groups—the first or ‘‘old” 
period (including Crabbe Aiud Pulteney) up to 1820; the second or 
middle period (nae the two Babingtons, Bloxam, Coleman, 
and Miss Kirby) extending from 1820 to 1850; and the third or 
recent” : period, from 1850 to the present time. The “Mr. A. M. 
Barnard” of the se second period should be ‘ Miss A. M. Barnard,” a 
grand-daughter of Sir J. B. Smith, who is mentioned in the ‘Flora 
“eran Pulteney’s plants are in the British Museum 
Although a useful contribution to our local knowledge, it can 
ma be said that this Flora is quite up to the high standard 
