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40 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
first attempt that has yet been made to map out in their vice- | 
counties the hepatics of the British Isles. The vice-counties of 
Great Britain are 112 as defined by H. C. Watson in 1852; and 
for Ireland the 40 vice-counties planned by Mr. Lloyd Praeger in 
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1896 are adopted. The system of classification is that elaborated — 
by Schiffner in Engler & Prantl’s Die natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien, 
and comprises seventy genera and two hundred and forty-nine 
species; varieties also are recognized, and, where necessary, 
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Exchange Club is to be congratulated upon the production of this 
useful preliminary working list; it remains for local bryologists to 
contribute towards the completion of its efficiency.—A. G. 
A CORRESPONDENT Calls our attention to the following advertise- 
ment, which appeared in a recent issue of the Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
We feel that we ought not to withhold fr ur readers the informa- 
tion it contains as to the special—we may say, peculiar—properties 
attributed to Gentiana verna :— 
PEBNS.—50 Bushy Hardy Evergreen Irish Rockery Ferns, in 
12 distinct kinds, for 10s. free by parcel post, or 25 for 5s. 
exquisite Crested Ferns for 5s. free. Twelve plants of the Royal 
Flowering Fern for 5s. free; this number constitutes a colony of 
i i clumps 
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