NOTICES OF BOOKS. 125 
Every British botanist who wishes to increase his knowledge 
concerning critical plants and varieties, should not fail to obtain a 
copy of the ‘ Flora of Hampshire. 
T. R. Aw B; 
THE recently issued part of Dr. Just’s invaluable ‘ Botanischer 
Jahresbericht ’ concludes the records of the year 1878. The index ~ 
of the species referred to in the two sclaiacs: for that year occupies 
nearly two hundred pages of three columns each. 
Messrs. Vilmorin, Andrieux & Cie. have issued, under the title 
‘Plantes Potagéres,’ a handsome and fully illustrated volume 
devoted to the description and cultivation of the ae ore vegetables 
of temperate regions. Although not strictly a botanical book, it 
contains a large amount of information which will we very useful, 
and indeed invaluable, to those who study the history and develop- 
ment of cultivated plants. 
So much interest attaches just now to te en that 
it is worth while to direct attention to the Rev. J. Sibree’s very in- 
teresting volume entitled ‘The Great Afvienn: Island’ (Tritbne er & 
Co.). It contains much information regarding the more striking 
sharaclatigiies of Rudagaiat vegetation, the economic applications 
of trees and’plants, &e. While speaking of Madagascar botany we 
may note that a list of plants we sedi considerable length is to be 
found in a little-known work entitled, ‘A Voyage to Madagascar 
and the East Indies, by the Abbé Rochon .... Translated from 
the French. London, 1792.’ ‘The list is headed « « Diesariron 
of Trees, Shrubs and Plants, which in the northern part 
f Madagascar, and w I carried to - Isle of France in the 
end of the year 1768." The native names only are given, with 
notes on the uses of the nyrenek and it ened arobably in many 
cases be pose identify them 
THE Annual Report it the rec tib he College Science 
Society (i888) contains a paper on the Botany of Dulwich, by 
Mr. uthers, the Secretary of the Society. It is entirely 
bibliographical, aeen ng of extracts dating from Merrett’s 
‘Pinax’ (1666) to Brewer's ‘ Flora of Surrey’ (1863). Mr. 
arruthers says that ulwich ‘‘can still put in its claims to a 
flora’; and we hope he will give us in oe next Report a list of the 
plants ‘which still hold their ground ther 
.  Sourn Arrican botanists have — to be grateful to Messrs. 
MacOwan and Bolus, for the botanical ie of a poms ue 
of Printed Books and Papers eine to South Afri 3 
just been issued by the South African ai Philosophie’ | Scieny, in the 
form of a pamphlet of 77 pages. Not only are separate works, 
sire, * entirely or partially with South ‘Atioas plants, included, 
notes by the compilers. We should be glad to see a similar work 
undertaken for British botany. The only point to which we could 
