422 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
which appears in Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff's Notes from a Diary 
(i. pp. 191, 193; published 1897) under dates ‘‘ Cannes, April 29, 
May 1, 1862”:— 
“Tn the evening to Dr. Battersby’s, where we met Bellenden- 
Ker, the once-celebrated conveyancer. He told me that his father 
had been in the Lifeguards when Louis XVI. was beheaded. The 
heart, Ixia viridis. He was struck with its appearance, bought it, 
and devoted himself to plants for forty years. . . . Mr. Bellenden- 
Ker was intimate, when a young man, with Sir Joseph Banks, of 
whom he gave a curious description. He [Banks] spoke no foreign 
language, but received foreigners all day, his secretary, a Swede of 
the name of Dryander, interpreting for him.” 
; James Britten. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
A List, with Descriptive Notes, of all the Species of Hepatics hitherto 
found in the British Islands. By Henry Wiut1aM Lert, M.A., 
M.R.LA. Obtainable from the Author, Aghaderg Glebe, 
Loughbrickland, co. Down. Pp. 199. Price 7s. 6d. net. 
Tae above is the name given on the title-page to this latest 
addition to the literature of our Hepatica, but on the previous page 
it 18 inscribed British Hepatics, and on the cover Hepatics of the ~ 
British Islands. Hither of the latter would be the more appro- 
» &C., 
generally given indiscriminately, whether the leaves be emarginate, 
lobed, or deeply divided. 
A short synopsis of the genera is followed by a key and a 
description of each species under their respective genera, the de- 
