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cae comprises short particulars respecting the topography, 
ate, and geology of the county; also outlines of the twelve 
bolaninal disinee, ee d the river basins, into which it is 
t ted a: 
counties; of Ha pai mainland with the Isle of Wight; com- 
parison with Mr. Watson’s sub-provinces ; list of species hasitay a 
certain limit in the os as compared with the rest of England ; 
reference to M. Thurman’s ‘ Essai de Phytostatique’ ; a short article 
on introduced aay ; an Appendix of nearly a dozen pages, filled 
with critical remarks or valuable notes concerning some of the 
plants mentioned in the body of the work; four pages of additions 
and conepennone: an alphabetical index of the orders and genera ; 
nother of the “more popular English names,’’ brings 
the well- filled soln to its end. It moreover contains a good map, 
showing the district 
dealt with, one interesting feat f the ‘ Middles lora’ is 
lacking, viz., a ske the progress of botanical investigation in 
the county. This is to be regretted, as a chronological e of the 
f very great interest. Particulars of their writings are, however, 
partly supplied by the list of the a works quoted, which 
very Frail one. Considering the area of the county is about 
1,082,105 acres, and that this surface is divided into 12 districts 
for the express purpose of tracing, so far as possible, all its plant 
species through them, the self-imposed task Mr. a set 
himself to perform, ein eyes now carried out, appears great 
indeed. It is true that m of his quotations of previous fees 
have been shorn of much of their interest and some of their value 
through being given in the form of mere names of places sane of 
in the exact and fuller words of the original writers; but to have 
dealt otherwise with them, especially those from Dr. Bromfield’s 
writings, would have added greatly to the size of the book and 
ain spot, a practice which the author says he has sometimes 
followed must be open to objection,—that is if we are to understand 
him in the following words to assert an ignoring of any published 
records of plant- stations, in addition to some unrecorded manuscript 
ones privately furnished by correspondents or friends: ‘‘ When I 
e myself,” says Mr. Townsend, ‘‘also seen the plant in the 
locality, I have, unless the record be an old one or seem to require 
or written one, published or unpublished; it may be the name of 
the finder, or of the author of a book, or it may be a dried specimen 
