124 THE YEAR-BOOK OF SCIENCE, 
records can be traced back to an earlier date and authority ; thus a 
ines. record for Stratiotes aloides is to be found in Johnson’s 
Gerard (1636); Ray recorded Salicornia herbacea for Lincs. in the 
Historia Plantarum (1686); and Chara vulgaris was found in 1876 
by Dr. H. F. Parsons. In some cases the authorities quoted are 
incorrect; thus Aulacomnium palustre var. imbricatum was Mr. 
P k’ t mine; and several other mosses attributed 
he thanks of Lincolnshire botanists are due to Mr. Lees for 
placing a mark (!) against those plants which he has himself seen 
cannot help being amused at the way in which he disposes of 
others as ‘‘mis-nomers,” ‘ mis-c nceptions,”’ ‘‘ambiguities,” &c. 
I could wish that the very interesting and useful prefatory remarks 
had been amplified at the expense of the space devoted to “ First 
Records.” 
A great deal of drudgery will still have to be undergone by 
someone in the form of wading through volume after volume of 
topographical and botanical works, and herbaria (more often than 
not, perhaps, quite fruitlessly), before a complete Lincolnshire 
plant-list can be produced. To give some idea of what yet remains 
to be done, I may mention the following among other herbaria 
Herb. Plukenet; Herb. Merrett; the York Museum Herbarium, 
containing Rey. J. Dalton’s Botanist’s Guide record specimens, as 
a 
Lincoln, and now (or lately) in the custody of Mr. C. Simpson, of 
J. Burrr Davy. 
The Year-book of Science. Edited for 1892 by Prof. T. G. Bonney, 
D.Se., LL.D., F.R.S. Cassell & Co. 8vo, pp. viii, 519. 
Price 7s. 6d. 
We are glad to welcome the second annual issue of what may 
become the Hazeil’s Cyclopedia or Whitaker’s Almanac of science. 
Before, however, it attains that position, it will require to be more 
complete than it is at present. While fully recognising the merits 
of the work, we propose to draw attention to a few of its deficiencies. 
