BOTANY AND OUTLINE FLORA OF LINCOLNSHIRE. 123 
(at Crymlyn, Bournemouth) during April, and forward them to 
M. Buser. Botanists sending specimens will please make it clear 
whether they wish their ‘a hoa returned, and will number those 
that are not required back.—Epwarp F. Linon 
priLopiuM Lamyi F, Schultz. —- This is omitted from the list of 
* First a and, if intentionally, I fail to see on what grounds. 
cannot well be - sed over as an wing since it has all the 
mention, in a list in which F. alpinum L. and E. anagallidifolium 
a are both admitted; considering the convincing testimon 
Mes roves (Journ. Bot. 1889, 1 09) and the Rev. E. 8. 
Marshall (Journ. Bot. 1889, 146; 1890, 6) have given to the vie 
adopted by Nyman and Prof. Hanssimeeht, that these are two 
— 
oe 
on 
Surrey); date, 1884, when his monograph of the genus was 
published. Mr. R. F. Towndrow tells me that it was through his 
being shown the sheet in the British Museum, Mr. H. 
Ridley, that he recognised in 1885 the plant in Worcestershire. 
The distinction between EH. Lamyi and its nearest congen ers, E. 
matum Griseb. and E.. obscurum Behe: ., 18 well drawn out in this 
Journal (1889, 5; and 1890, 145) by Mr. Marshall, ee tells me in 
a recent letter that on offspring of these species, viz., LE. adnatum 
x Lamyi and E. Lamyi x ye net um, is, in his mas ct uniformly 
sterile-—Epwarp F, Dias 
NOTICES OF BOOKS, 
Botany and Outline Flora a Lincolnshire. By F. Arnoutp Less, 
M.B.C.S., L.R.C.P. Reprinted Ping baad 8 History, 
Gazetteer, and Dison of the County. 
a of West Yo ae oa pete to the 
g to 
reorerames he has failed to fulfil his purpose: such a list should 
accurate and complete, and Mr. Lees’ Outline Flora possesses 
neither of these esse sontils. rv examples of inaccuracy I m may poi 
out that the records for Medicago minima and Didymodon sinuosus 
are both incorrect ; that Ray’s record for eink aes tectorum is 
for v.-c. 53 ethene Lines.), not North Lines. ; that Lastrea Oreopteris 
has been recorded for v.-c. 54 (North Lines. ) by Mr. Fowler; and 
that Ray’s ; Tetford Wood Geum was G. intermedium, not typical 
rivale. Of minor importance is the fact that in several cases first 
