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meadows; established by rivers, etc.,’’ is, Dr. Trow says, “ quite 
misunderstood It is most at home on ike te ground which 
is well drained and dry in summer; and where, owing to the 
Semnanite inde diter of the soil, it runs little danger of being 
overgrown and smothered by taller plants. Its original — 
ry by the 
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to suppo ort a luxuriant crop of grass, the fate of the weeds, 
‘hardy Perennials pen they be, i is sealed. . The pant is 3 stoty 
adapted to ‘open formation ’—hence its occurrence on sa 
dunes, river goth m railway -emipa ankments, mountain nae it seal: 
tips, ak hills, and even ‘bare rock,’ is Foenhy understood.” 
extracts will show that, has been ee said, the 
Flora, Sone much that is of iitaeenk and will well repay 
perusal. 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 
Tue Liverpool Botanical Society has issued the first volume of 
its Transactions (8vo, wrapper, pp. 109, price 4s.) containing 
‘ a 
Miss M. H. Wood print a very 20 and interesting “ Biographical 
List of Lancashire Botanists,” in which the Biographical Index 
of British Botanists “has been foaaly utilized and may be said to 
largely form [szc] the foundation which has been 
arranged on a very similar plan general papers the 
most important is Mr. F. N. Wiliame’s exhaustive study of Hon- 
kenya ina te dee seems some hat out of place in a local 
publication me distinguishes and describes three 
y apetala, with various eiaviekice® the first is the British ‘plant. 
A VALUABLE addition to the series of. “ Nenu re Books ’’ is that 
devoted to Fossil Plants, published by Messrs. Gowans and Gray. 
EE ee 
_Arber. With a very few exceptions the fossils have been 
carefully selected for illustration. They will be a great help to 
student collectors in determining the position of the specimens 
et find brought up from coal mines. Somew what out of me ait 
wit we imagine is the main use of the work are the 
rable reproductions of several stem- structures, which can be of 
