80 NOTICES OF BOOKS, 
From the style of printing—each specific name beginning wi with a 
csistat letter—we should be inclined to think that the pees had 
been placed in somewhat unpractised hands, but this an 
editorial blunder. We regret, however, that Mr. Fuvkasods should 
not have printed here the list of Orkney plants which he has just 
completed in the ‘ deere > Sieg ’ instead of contenting iim. 
self ‘with an enumeration of the rarer species which have been 
verified by Dr. Boswell. "The Shetland list is fuller, but even less 
satisfactory, aa abounds in misspellings. In neither case is there 
pp. 2-15) or Mr. Watson’s ‘ Florula Orcadensis ’ ce 1864, pp. 11- 
20) so much as referred to. It is only right to add that the 
other portions of the book seem to have been much more carefully 
and oe done 
Messrs. Cassett & Co. send us the Third Series of their 
‘ Familiar Gave en Flowers’ and the Fourth of their ‘ Familiar 
Wild Flowers,’ which abt all the excellencies and all the defects. 
e a preceding volum The figures are, with some exceptions, 
, the Wood Sota, ,—pretty and accurate, so far as they g0; 
the hourres is inadequate, and might easily convey much more 
information without in any way sacrificing the popular style which 
is essential to works of this kind. In the ‘Garden Flowers,’ 
entaurea montana is figured as C. Cyanus, to which plant a the 
descriptive portion refers: the true C. Cyanus is given in the * Wild 
Flowers.’ We doubt if the plant figured as Potentilla alpestris 18, 
as Mr. Hibberd implies, the British species ae by that name; 
e nam feet seems an ee «English name’”’ for the 
plant. Mm ¢ is a true British plant, although Mr. 
Hibberd civ poeitirin us 5 & the contrary. Mr. Hulme’s treat- 
ment of the wild flowers is less open to criticism ae Mr. 
Hibberd’s init of dealing with the garden ones; but in neither 
case is see best use made of an wxcelliank opportunity for interesting 
people in familiar flowers. 
We have received from Mr. F. T. Mott, of Leicester, a copy of 
a ain of twenty-five oblong pages, entitled ‘ The Fruits of all 
One Mr. Mott gives in tabular form a list of 515 “ fruits,” 
the ‘word in its popular, not its botanical sense, showing the 
native region of each, with the habit of the plant, the ae 
and qualities of the fruit, and an indication of what part of 
fruit is eaten; the popular name is added where a well- Ce ome 
rere A good deal of useful information has thus been brought 
oge 
ew Booxs.—H. R. Goprerr, ‘Catalog der botanischen Museum 
der Tauvensitah Breslau’ io pp. vii. 54, 1 plate; Gorlitz, Remer).* 
—E. Burnat & A. Gremt, ‘ Catalogue raisonné des Hieracium des 
Alpes Maritimes’ (8vo, ou: 84: Datei, Georg). —J. DurrscHMiD, 
* Contains figure and description of Agave Goeppertiana Jacobi, 2. sp. 
