244 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
(p. 175). The record is a noteworthy one for the ee 
rainfall is small, and the rocks on which the plant is found are dis- 
tinctly dry and only slightly calcareous ; that they are waleanicis 
was evidenced by testing with an acid, as well as ve the presence of 
Weisia verticillata in the locality. Another unexpected record for 
county is Andreea Rothii W. t xp 
surface of the same very dry one rocks in the vicinity of 
Kidderminster, onl ft. above sea ] o record of thi 
exists for the neighbouring counties of Warwickshire and Stafford- 
shire, and in Worcest tershire, on such hills as we have, rising in the 
Mairentis to 1500 ft. above sea-level, it has been looked a in vain. 
In addition to the foregoing, the fo ollowing may be added to Mr. 
Bagnall’s list:—Dicranella Schrebert Schimp. Not conical Dick 
edw. var condensatum Schimp. Rare ; rocks by streams in Wyre 
8 
Physcomitrella patens B. & 8. Blackstone, Bewdley. — Thuidium 
recognitum Lindb. Wyre Forest. — Brachythecium illecebrum De 
Sandstone — Lincombe. ee depressum Dixon. North 
Wood, Bewdley.—J. B. Duncan 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Methods in Plant Histology. By Cuartus J. CoamBerta Second 
edition. Pp.x,and 262. Chicago: The University of Chicago 
Press. London: T. Fisher Unwin. 
Tue first edition af this book met with a we ‘al e paved success, 
though se was not as largely used in the laboratories of this country 
as its m warranted. The distinctive feature of the book is the 
second portion, in which the chief groups of the vegetable kingdom 
are passed in review, and the most suitable methods of preparation 
for the more “pat laboratory material described. In the second 
edition, which has been considerably enlarged, the very valuable 
Venetian ue pesians method—almost unknown here—is described 
in full details; the paraffin diethod is improved, and the celloidin 
method described in greater detail. In connexion with the latter 
rd w 
special shee such as the ‘conddinai tins of pnccett con- 
tinuity from cell oa cell, are also added. In the second part more 
attention has been paid to collecting and growing laboratory 
material, and Klebs’s methods for obtaining reproductive phases o 
alge and fungi are described in connection with various forms. 
The work can be stron nely recommended to advanced students, 
and especially to teachers V.H.B. 
