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cases, “to prevent future misunderstanding,” as to the recent 
me of the plant on Mullion Cliffs; the succeeding species, 
M. incana, has been introduced at Newquay. 
The east references to Topographical Botany render it 
desirable to remind local workers that Watson’s documents from 
these would have cleared be doubts in certain cases. us under 
tee 3m i ta to his MSS. es that iat aenll s so 
aaah _ the very unsatisfactory Penzance Guide which Mr. 
Davey quotes, and which Mr. Watson cites irom Pascoe’s equally 
unsatisfactory list in Bot. Gaz. ii. 38-40—a paper, by the way, 
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either under Pascoe or in ae bibliography. Probably the Lythrum 
has no claim to insertion, and the same may almost certainly 
be said of the Top. Bot. teciethe onry one for the county— 
of Lactuca murals, although _ 8. in whose Catalogue 
Bot., but jot is no ot as a Cornish plant in Watson’s 
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in so sti as it states that there is a localized specimen of Pyru 
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carried it to so successful an issue in spi f hindrances from 
‘ill-health and other causes is a S patie for congratulation both to 
author and readers 
JAMES BRITTEN. 
plglen edit > the Tropics: an Elementary Treatise. By J. C. 
Witus, Director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradenya, 
Gayton: 8yo, Pp. 222. Price 7s. 6d. net. Cambridge 
University Pres 
To compress into a little over two hundred pages a treatise on 
tropical agriculture is a task which seems well-nigh impossible to 
