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intolligenes Ons, 8 n extract can do justice to Miss Thomson's 
yle :—* The 
because we get oe fingers so scratched by it. This is just what 
pleases Mr. Hawthorn, I am afraid. I am not surprised that he is 
gry with us for picking him, because we do not help him to make 
seeds; but at any rate we do not om him as the horses and cows 
do, and I think he minds Sea more than he does us, and is not at 
all sorry when his sharp poin aa their soft mou uths. But he has 
so many blossoms that I ene he will forgive us for taking a few, 
tyou? Still, when we can enjoy the flowers by going out and 
looking at them, instead of gathering them, I think it is kinder, 
and besides, we leave them for other people to look at, too, after we 
reflection—‘‘ How glad the long stem must be to have something to 
hold on to!’’ Among the rather feeble illustrations we note (p. 213) 
A aise hybridum masquerading as ‘white clover,” while ‘the 
daisy’’ on p. 230, whatever else it may be: is not the plant usually 
known that name; she thinks Conrallaria ‘‘ might well be igi 
whitebells’’ (p. 129), and proceeds to call them so :—‘‘I ne 
make up my mind whether I like whitebells or bluebells Tee Z 
‘*Do you know the pretty little blue scylla?” she asks (p. 180). 
We do not; but the word suggests to us that in avoiding the Scylla 
of technicalities Miss Thomson has fallen into the Charybdis of 
nonsense. 
annual volume (1903) of the Transactions of the British 
Mycological Society, recently issued, compares favourably with its 
predecessors in the variety and interest of its contents, The Presi 
where aoe = speci es ha collecte 
eton Rea complete the number. There are three beautifully- 
printed coloured plates from drawings by Mrs. Carleton Rea. 
Mr. Epwarp Srep’s very Lig and handy little book on Wayside 
and Woodland T Trees (F. Warne & Co., 6s.) is noteworthy especially” 
on account of the at ebtoairs ath excellent illustrations—127 in 
number, from Aided toa thr adorn its pages. These show 
the same tree in summer and in winter, and also, in many eases, 
the bole on a somewhat large scale, “an leave nothing to be desired: 
there are also numerous useful figures in the text. ‘ Trees of foreign 
origin, some of them introduced so long ago that they are commonly 
regarded as native by those who are not botanists,” are included in 
