136 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
ehder (a n 
hybrid between M. fusca and M. communis) and Alvaradoa amor- 
phoides. The work, which is issued by Messrs. Houghton Mifflin 
& Co., of Harton is admirably printed. 
Tue Canadian Department of Agriculture has issued a hand- 
some quarto volume on the Farm Weeds of Canada which rae 
fail to be of great service to the farmers of that region. Ther 
are 52 excellent plates by Mr. Norman Criddle, each entrants 
some plant which it is highly desirable they should know how to 
deal with, while on four others, even more useful, the seeds of 
these species are very carefully portrayed, of the natural size and 
so enlarged. The letterpress, a page to each plate, by Dr. J anne 
Fletcher, F.L.S., has been prepared with equal care; a good de- 
introduction dealing with various practical points . connection 
with agriculture, and including a glossary. We have never seen a 
work more thoroughly adapted to its purpose, and we vaniaainiahe 
the Departs: on an excellent piece of work, 
of the “in d ¢ one os : sing 
this table of contents, it would oem that the oS iy plants 
and ferns are entirely omitted, for they find no mention, being in- 
cluded under “introduction”! It need hardly be said that 
Mr. Marshall’s account is an excellent summary of the phanero- 
gamic botany of the county. 
Tue Westminster Gazette of March 17 supplies us with an 
excellent example of newspaper botany :— “‘ Botanists seem now 
veneration by the Druids,” and far from being “a favourite emblem 
in Christian art” it is but _— iuigiooal therein. 
