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that Mr. Dyer wrote about “‘A Plant which destroys the 
Taste of Sweetness,” although, if the name of the plant were added, 
some information would be conveyed. We are well aware of the 
brittleness of our own windows, so our reference to the somewhat 
frequent typographical errors must be a passing one: but it might 
fairly be expected, from the position and ability of the age = 
more care would have been taken in this part ticular. 
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referred to the ‘ Piast cam Journal’ to find out the plant in 
question: we found to our relief that Huechys, a coleopterous 
lusect, was intended, but os seems somewhat out of place among 
botanical literature. A reco i 
Editors say, be ‘especially desirable,” if undertaken on useful aca 
but if the present instalment is to be taken as a specim we 
do not see that much advantage will accrue from their a of 
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Dr. Brarrawatte has issued a handy ‘Check-list of British 
Mosses’ for vol. i. of his Moss-flora, well printed on one side of the 
paper, which may be obtained from the author, 308, Clapham Road, 
S.W., for 3d 
‘Wesley N sbiteln’ (which has now reached its sixth 
number) is the Monthly Journal of the Wesley Scientific Society, 
which has been instituted with a view ‘‘to afford to men of scientific 
tastes and attainments an opportunity of using their talents and 
i ith the Christian 
be of two of the Cra Seba and we do 
not wonder that his correspondent was puzzled when told that G 
dur the Dovesfoot. It is ac fegrettable tha t Mr. .P. 
Ew Booxs.— L. Suto ua ‘Enumeratio Flore —— 
feo ar critica’ (Buda: 8vo, pp. xlix. 678: 1886). 
outs, ‘ Fresh-water i“ of the United States’ ( Hieihiehem: : 
Bvo: vol. i. (text), Pp. xi. 864; vol. ii. (plates), tt. Ses Sunz- 
BERGER, ‘Les Orchi iy 
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(Giessen, Ricker: 8yo, pp. xxxii. 106: sas _ 
talogue descriptif des Arbres, arbustes, arbrisseaux, as gous- 
arbrisseaux indigénes ou naturalisés en Suisse, suivi d’un Diction- 
naire des principaux noms vulgaires’ (Genéve, Carey: 8vo, pp. 211). 
ARTICLES IN RE 
save Bet re (Aug.), — E. L. Sturtevant, ‘ History of 
Garden a. ; h os 
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