FLORA OF CORNWALL 389 
Ralfs, T. R. Archer Briggs and Richard Vercoe Tellam. After 
this comes a description of the eight districts—five of them 
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introduction, which is followed by the Flora proper, in which 
the ferns and fern allies and Characee are the only eryptogams 
included. 
The distribution of the species is given in what might seem in 
some instances excessive detail, but this matter must always 
largely be guided by local circumstances. A notable feature is 
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which have not, we think, previously been placed on record. The 
space occupied by plants whose claims to a place in the county 
are spurious or at best doubtful is, we think, somewhat excessive ; 
the space they occupy; and the account of the doubtful occurrence 
of T'rechomanes radicans in the county certainly does not demand the 
two pages and more which are devoted to it. It is, however, we 
think more convenient to place all the plants in one series, as Mr. 
Davey, following most precedents, has done, than to o place them 
in a separate list at the end, which necessitates two references 
where one would suffice. There should certainly have been more 
distinction between natives and casuals: thus on p. 125 2 eet 
resupinatum and T. agrartum, although called “ casual” and “very 
rare’’ appear in nema the same type and manner as 7’. pro- 
aa and 7’. dubiu 
n books of this kind weight and space are items of or 
to the who carry them about for reference, and these might 
have been considerably reduced without detriment to the work ; 
the type, especially for the headings of the genera, and of the 
orders, is needlessly large, and the local printer, who has done his 
work well—there are singularly few misprints—would have done 
it still better had he be een given a good example—say the Flora of 
Oxfordshire—to follow; in any case, re ng of the name of 
a plant on the last line of a page—see Polygala vulgaris, p. 61— 
se i cer the next without repeating it, might have been. 
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of the early writers on British botany, although occasionally his 
having to trust to others for this has led to an inaccuracy; thus 
the locality assigned to Merrett for Matthiola ai does not 
appear in that author’s Pinaz, whence it is cited. er this, by 
the way, we are om to see a warning note, copuaten in other 
