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“white bean,” one of his pinay plants. There can “i paren 
doubt that White Beam (Pyrus Aria) is intended, which is a con- 
spicuous ornament of the chalk range about Box Hill. 
andsome quarto volume—the first—of Illustrations 
by descriptive letterpress. The typography, save for ioe title- 
page which is ugly, is ve creditable to the local printe 
FRE Kk Epwarp Huume, who died at Kew on dead 10, 
was boris = Hanley. | Staffordshire, i in 1841, and was buried at Brook- 
wood on April 14. He studied art at South Kensin ton, and was 
subsequently Art Master at Marlborough College and Pr rofessor of 
Geometrical Drawing at King’s College, London. He wrote and 
illustrated popular books on various subjects, the best- reeled (and 
perhaps the best) of which is Familiar Wild Flowers, which was 
begun in 1875 in monthly parts and has more than once been re- 
issued ; his illustrations to this are pretty and ADcuFAte, and the 
book has deservedly attained popularity. Of the companion series, 
Familiar Garden Flowers, the plates only were supplied by Hulme. 
He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 
Mr. Druce sends us some notes which bear upon our remarks 
(p. 195) upon the recent volume on the Ashmolean Natural His- 
tory of Oxfordshire. Phchanteas anglicus was a name proposed 
(in litt.) by Dr. von Sterneck for a poses sent him by Mr. Druce, 
“ 
The Cotoneaster was found on a small hae adjacent to Anglesey; 
Mr. Druce, with characteristic energy, visited the place and found 
that the plant was C. microphylla, which seemed completely 
Beep The sentence relating to Carex rhynchophysa is, as 
apparent, a jumble; the specimens exhibited were of the 
irish plant at first erroneously recorded as that species (see Journ. 
t. 1893, 33; 1899, 368). 
TH veer ven pe the Librairie nena ene (Paris) 
has ‘salad the second volume of Dr. C. Houard’s important work, 
Zoocécidies ides Planted d’ Europe et ae Basie de la Medi- 
b ave some account of the scope of the work when 
fukieieig the first volume (see Journ. Bot. 1908, 367); the second 
volume contains a bibliographi ical i index and a full index of the 
species of plants and sort mentioned in the text, as well as an 
introduction to the work. The two volumes, which oceupy nearly 
1300 pares cost 45 rea 
In the Essex Naturalist (xv. Jan.July, 1908, pp. 152-163), 
Mr. J ne French gives an tetera: account of plant distribution 
in the neighbourhood of Fels er touching upon the con- 
ditions attending the cae pe existence, he points out that the 
