\BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 279 
’ The Harpidium section of the Hypnum group has been recast ; 
arn new varieties are described, and the whole group rendered is 
more intelligible to the student. Hypnum fluitans is divided into 
groups, such a s group amphibium and group falcatum, under which 
the various varieties of this polymorphic _— are described. 
Under H. vernicosum a new variety, B majus Lind., is described ; 
under H. ayptnngicd is an interesting note oe new forms of that 
pee In the a nde and corrigenda a new anbspociads Grimmia 
retracta iti is deser 
mary of the contents will suffice to show that the new 
edition is i teen 0 not only to the beginner, but to the advanced 
student. It cannot fail to promote the study of bryology; and to 
stimulate seg gil ; and we may confidently expect that the third 
edition, when it co ay will afford the same testimony to the results 
of the ae issue as this does to the influence of its predecessor. 
J. E, Baenatr. 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ¢ée. 
Tue Handbook to the Natural History of Peay ee wet 
by J. E. Marr, Se.D., and A. E. Shipley, ued by th 
University ps on hia. 17, the opening day of the ei of the 
British Association at Gaimbridae, lt is an extremely hand and 
well-printed volume, creditable in every way to the editors and to 
the various contributors. The section dealing with botany, with 
which alone we are concerned, 6 pane entrusted to lis, 
of Hunstanton. r. Wallis groups these ecrcnietons 
ba four heads—the fen, the dry land, the meadows, and t 
ods—and his summary under each shows a thoroug] 
both with the plants and the any The sate cht have been 
read more ¢ arefully—we find on one page (236) Juncus “* Geradii,” 
Statice ‘‘ rareflorum,” and Triglochium “maritima” — we thi 
bibliography of the ‘subject would have been a useful and interesting 
addition. - There is a small but useful map, and a very meagre index. 
HE new part of the Flora Capensis—* Vol. iv. sect. 2, part ii.” 
—is entirely occupied by the continuation of Mr. Hiern’ s mono- 
graph of the coer the earliest portion of ich we 
noticed on p. 124, includes a new genus, Glumicalyx, plac 
between Veronica and Mar bie s somewhat anomalous genus Chara- 
drophila, from the Orange River Colony. The Sposmnin and 
arrangement present all, the peculiarities on which we have more 
than once commented, and which geass the Flora Capensis 
unfavourably from the other Kew floras. It may be urged that 
thi 
this principle has not prevented the present editor from adopting 
in the volumes issued under his direction the objectionable Kew 
innovation by which the adjectival forms of proper names a 
