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NOTICE OF BOOK, 
Botany of the Farées, based upon Danish Investigations Part I. 8vyo, 
pp. 340, 10 plates, 50 figures in text, and map. Copenhagen. 
London: Wheldon. 
Tuis well-printed volume is prefaced by historical notes by 
Prof. Warming, and contains, besides the “ hanerogame and 
Pteridophytya,”’ elaborated by C. H. Ostenfeld, contributions on the 
Bryophyta by C. Jensen, the Freshwater Alge by E. Borgesen, 
Freshwater Diatoms by E. Ostrup, and Fungi by E. Rost 
Lichens by J. O. Deichmann Brandth. The second part will con- 
tain the Marine Algw and Diatoms, Plankton, &. The work is 
written in English, and is thus easily consultable by British 
botanists, to whom the botany of the islands, which should be 
included in the British Flora, will prove of especial interest. The 
present notice is limited to a consideration of Ostenfeld’s portion 
of the work. 
The arrangement of the Phanerogams begins with the 
Boraginacee, and ends with Selaginella. It is illustrated with 
drawings of Plantago lanceolata y. depressa, Rhinanthus, Euphrasia, 
Vaccinium, Cerastium Edmonstoni, Honckenya, Polygala vulgaris v. 
Ballti, and Ranunculus Flammula f. speciosa. For the literature 
relating to the Islands, Dr. Ostenfeld refers to Rostrup’s F'eroernes 
Flora of 1870, and remarks that since then his 
and those by J. C. Melvill (published in this Journal for 1891, 
pp. 179-185), Kurtz, and Simmons are the only additions to it. 
e has had access to Copenhagen Museum Herbarium, which 
contains the greater part of Lyngbye’s collection, and to other 
principal ones, and material obtained by various collectors ; but 
has relied chiefly on his own, made with Mr. Hartz, and in 1895-97. 
He makes a few additions to the received flora, and certain correc- 
tions, not accepting several of Trevelyan’s determinations, &c. 
The most interesting of these additions are J’araxacum croceum 
Dahlst (which is said to need further investigation), Lobelia 
Drummond-Hayi B.White as a variety), several Euphrasias (which 
he pollectod largely), among them “ £. latifolia Pursh ”’—I am 
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