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two in any way interfere with oneti other. Those who know 
'  Grindon’s style will expect to find in these pages a cracefully 
 -written gacaen of trees and flowers, abounding with apt illustra- 
_ tion and classical reference, and they will not be disappointed. In 
some instances new light is thrown upon disputed Sy perce as 
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writers have evidently taken great pains. But it is to be regretted 
that Mr. Grindon makes no reference to Mr. Ellacombe’s ae of 
which he is not likely to have been ignorant, and which deserved a 
tion ; 
ld. We are not quite clear that Mr. Grindon is right in supposing 
that the word “‘ eanker’’ was transferred to the Dog Rose from the 
Cynips with which oe shrub is so often affected ; it is the fruit of 
e rose which e name in several counties, Nien in 
others the plant ‘6 “ealled asap and Heywood, writin 
1636, calls it Canker-flower. The name‘ Dian’s bud,’ rialnoked iy 
Mr. Ellacombe, Mr. Grindon canada but does not identify. 
Bape s jee die vorweltliche Entwickelung der Erdkruste und der 
Pflanz Grundziigen dargestellt, von Dr. Orro Kunze. 
icine Paul Frohberg. 4, 
4 gE first portion of this work is occupied with a survey of 
_ geological time divided ao epochs of temperature. The whole 
period is separated into two, the inorganic and cryptobiotic period, 
during which the ee of the earth ranged between 1 
and 40° C, and, dating from its shoes to the present time, the 
phenobiotic period. Both periods are subdivided into epochs of 
chemically or biologically. The eryptobiotic period thus consists 
of three mace during the last of which lowly organisms made 
their appearance, but without leaving = trace of their existence. 
The phenobiotic period is divided into the Azonal-Marine and 
Zonal-Terrestrial apo the first oar nite and the second thrice 
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favourite doctrine of the marine growth of coal-measure vegetation. 
A sketch illustrative of these views is appended. 
E have received a copy of Mr. Tudor’s extensive and inte- 
resting work entitled ‘ The Orkneys and Shetland,’ which has lately 
been published by Mr. Edward Stanford, of Charing Cross. The 
chapters on the Flora, seat more especially call for notice here, 
are by Messrs. W. Irvine Fortescue and Peter White respectively. 
