26 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
CHENopopIuM ALBUM L. (1) var. imcanwm Moq.; (2) var. 
wei Syme ; @). ageie rs rebar? (1) and (2). New Humber- 
stone, Leicestershire, v.-c. 55, Aug. 16th, 1906. The plants sent 
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also grew in the same deny and C. pte 
merging from one variety into onsihaeds . Rh. HoRwoop. 
these three specimens are rightly distinguished.—E. 
Being only varieties of one species they would notably merge into 
a other. I believe this can be seen wherever the species grows 
rubbish, uncultivated ground, &c., but in cultivated ground the 
var. incanum prevails mostly.—A. BENNETT 
Ncus TENUIS Willd. (1) Derry acd, near Seggieden, East 
Pe ticuics y.-c. 89, Aug. 10th and Sept. 27th, 1903; July 5th, 
= For particulars of the dacuge and habitat of this plant 
ee Annals Scottish Nat. Hist. 1904, p. 59. The plant still main- 
Saas itself in this station as Serer as in 1903, ase it does 
not seem to spread much.—W. Baronay. (2) Waste ground near 
poet parbour, Co. Down, September, ‘1908, and October, 4 1906.— 
Wand 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
The Flora of West Lancashire. By J. A. Wuepon, F.L.S., and 
AuBert Witson, F.L.S. Illustrated with coloured map and 
= 511. Price 12s. € 6d. 
Aurnoues the authors in their preface modestly claim to have 
: Se the conventional models in the plan of their Flora,” 
who open the book will not fail to detect features which, if 
not precisely wef have assumed a position and importance un- 
pth f the one and the absence of others to which they 
are accusto oa 8, for example, an almost entire absence 
of the biographical rapt ahiok in some recent floras has assumed 
undue prwcoract the re of authorities quoted, including biblio- 
occupies barely fi es. The authors have throughout 
need to search their pages for ‘‘new combinations” or for notes 
upon al fo species which are more accessible in a magazine than 
ra. 
ot Mevobaiabe Bay? —is divi idiot & as Gait ealehully weatten id t 
sufficiently indicated, though the number of localities given is 
comparatively few. 
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