BRITISH PLANT LISTS 127 
Lond. Cat. ed. x. Druce List. 
tomentosa Reith.*& Abel (pube- tomentosa Reith. (B. pubescens 
Ehr 
scens Ehrh. ., B. glutinosa Wallr.), 
b. denudata E. S. Marshall. b. carpaticn (Waldst. & Kit.). 
¢. parvifolia E. 8. Marshall. pairs = intermedia Thom. 
alba=? odorata Bechst. 
ment of such critical genera as Hieraciwm with that of the las 
edition. By the way, we are asked to point out thet by an fies 
sight H. cambricum F. J. Hanb. has been omitted—it should come 
in Group iv. after H. vagense 
Mr. Druce has bestowed on his new List of British Plants 
much time and care which it seems ungracious to say might okeg 
two statements. With regard to the former, it can scarcely be 
contended that the List was necessary : all that British botan tats 
require in this aren is suppli y the atalogue, 
which has sufficed for some generations and will certainly be in 
no way superseded b Mr. Druce’s List. Nor do we see how such 
a list can be “the outcome of field-work,” or how it in any way 
embodies the result of such investigation. It is largely concerned 
with ae cian tech ohh pre s so little ot ates with “ field- 
work” of any kind that even decline to regard it as a part 
of botany—and is thus a book for the study, tee for the field. 
The List is swollen to an abnormal extent by the inclusion of 
es plants ranging from the ie! absolute native to the mere ballast 
waif.” We are cer eye among those who “take objection to 
think it may claim to be the pest of this List. “We have no 
evidence that they represent as many species. Two adjoining 
columns on pp. 36, 37 een respectively 21 and 20 introductions 
against 2 and 3 natives ; he reductio ad absurdum is surely 
reached by the inclusion of tthe ‘Vine, Fig, Date-palm and Orange (!) 
in the Lis 
