236 é THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 
Tue Report of the Proceedings of the Liverpool Naturalists’ 
Field Club for 1901 contains an address on ‘the Fungi” by the 
President of the Club, Dr. CG. T. Green, followed by ‘‘a preliminary 
index of local fungi, mainly from Wirral.’ Dr. Green. sends us a 
in that each species is figured, in most cases from plants growing 
‘n the district. The figures are carefully drawn and characteristic, 
but it is to be regretted that no dissections are given; there should 
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services being gratefully acknowledged in a voluminous corre- 
spondence. Brown next turned his attention to a projected Flora 
of Flintshire, for which he collected many notes during holiday 
rambles in that county, but through failing health and lack of 
support the project was abandoned. Some notes on Flint plants 
from his pen will be found in this Journal for 1885, pp- 357-360. 
Tue great Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, edited by Prof. 
L. H. Bailey (Macmillan & Co.), previous instalments of which 
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and attractive style which distinguishes his literary work. 
b take rank as a standard work of reference on horticulture, 
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4357 articles, 2255 genera and 8793 species being fully described, 
in addition to about the same number of varieties and species 
incidentally mentioned. 
We have received the second part of Dr. Theodore Cooke's 
Flora of the Presidency of Bombay, in which the enumeration 18 
carried on from Simarubacee to the end of Leguminosae. Sir George 
King gave a full account of the plan and scope of the work in ° 
last year’s volume (p. 892), and it is only necessary to call attention 
to its steady progress, which it is to be hoped will be maintained 
