850 THE FLORA OF CARDIFF. 
= a hedasasg _ that has yet appeared. This is in no sense a 
sparagement of Mr. J. E. Griffith’s ‘ Flora of Ses ma ki and 
i i s with 
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many contributions to the Bs owiedge of i counties; but we 
still need anything like a complete and satisfactory Flora for any 
. Storrie’ s book differs in some respects from most of its 
predecessors i in being de escriptive, and it is thus a botanical manual 
for t 
‘«simply a conn ace n, in which I have suideavounted to use what- 
ever may tend to forward” the determination of the species. So 
ras a cursory examination enables us to judge, he has done or 
work very well; although, as the utmost possible compression wa 
his object, we could have e dispensed with ~~ constantly sone 
“herb,” if the exceptions to this had bee ted. 
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the large area into i nor do we find anything about the 
drainage, clima tology, geology, or ik forces which regulate and 
limit the flora of a district. The bibliography is neither exhaustively 
in portion of the work, however, consists of the 
descriptive "ee and many items of general interest may be 
leaned from it. It is interesting, for instance, to know that the 
Peony still abounds on the Steep Holme island; “ attention being 
specially called to the plant during a meeting of the British 
Association at Bristol in 1860, it was carried off wholesale by 
excursionists, &c., until only four or five plants remaine 
inaccessible parts of the cliff; but stric rvisio art 
of the proprietor of the island, who ne the sanguin of roots, 
has enabled the plant to regain nearly its form xuriance.’ 
g 80, we do not quite understand why Me. ‘ees one 
this among “ extinctions.” Polypodium cambricum is less fortunate ; 
it remained in the station given by Ray until about ten years 
since, when an itinerant fern dealer “ uprooted every plant, and 
polenta ne MIMeR SIT ON Tr eer emose etme 
rere number should | probably be increased by another Welsh bee = 
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