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ENGLISH LOCAL BOTANY, 288 
But, as the trivial nature of these criticisms will show, we have 
nothing but praise for this conscientious little book, and the botanist 
we visits South-west Surrey cannot do better than take it in his 
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no localities ; each plant, however, has an ‘‘ English name,” and 
‘the greater number are found in the Lama district.” Mr. 
Fielding has, we believe, lived in Kent for a great many years, and 
it is a thousand pities that he did not come under the influence of 
some capable botanist when he first began to notice plants. As it 
lim 
Here are three entries oe the first page of the Flora, from 
which st readers can form their own judgment as to the character 
of the list 
- Trollias us Huropaeus. — Globe-flower; a plant common in 
Kentish gardens, but I cannot find that it has been discovered wild 
in this county. 
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East Kent. Mr. Hepworth of Rochester has detected it. The 
faversham Floral, Sgn eed years ago, mentions it, and 
Hooker also erent it for 
** Aconi apellus. Monk s hood, common wolf bane. 
have seen this plant growing where I had reason to think it 
native, but, as it is a very common seideth plant, it may have nifie 
an esca 
There a are six Primulas in the eam ogee caulescens, 
veris, elatior, and hybrida—the last a comprehensive name for “ the 
hybrid primroses between veris and vulgaris, peels and elatior, 
common in some parts of Ireland as a wild tree, this shrub has 
never been acknowledged as an English native. In Kent, though 
only found in gardens and shrubberies, it, nevertheless, with two or 
three other trees (the evergreen or holm oak, the deodara, the Chilian 
or Araucanian pine, the cedar of Laban and others), flourishes ag 
if this were its native home. Perhaps it is merely reintroduced into 
what was once rm ne sore an It is well for Mr. Fielding that 
. C. Watson is no longer wit 
But we are sure diss our a aathor has the best of intentions, and 
the main part of the book (with which we are not concerned) shows 
that he is industrious. Perhaps Mr. Hanbury (who, we are glad to 
