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friends are a little behindhand with their work; but it is sgbene des 
to see how thoroughly they confine their public ation to matter 
connected with the natural history of their district. 
Mr. Wituiam Hopeson operetta some ‘Notes on the Flora 
of the Ullswater District’ in part vii. of the Beret of the 
Cumberland pecan ag et i Ayaibainent of Literature and 
Science. What appears to be a very complete list of the plants 
found within the district | i Nhs “Olisesiari is given as an appendix. 
We are glad to welcome an addition to our local natural 
history siblicetions’ in the shape of ‘The Rochester Naturalist: a 
Quarterly Record of the Rochester Naturalists’ Club.’ Mr. John 
Hepworth gives a paper on “ Rochester Umbellifere,” with a 
localised list of the species found in the district, and the report of 
the club evidences botanical work. We hope the Rochester 
naturalists will obtain sufficient support to are them to 
continue this well-printed little journal, wh ~~ is issued (by 
Wildish, Rochester) at the very low cost of 1s. per annum. 
Mr. H. D. Getparr publishes a list of se Manin Algee 
of Norfolk in vol. iii. of the ‘Transactions of the Norfolk and 
Norwich Naturalists’ Society. 
Tue last part (fasc. 89) of the ‘ Flora Brasiliensis’ contains the 
beginning of the Melastomacee (Microliciee), by Prof. Cogniaux. 
ue Westbury House School Ephemeris’ is a little mon nthly 
journal i issued by a school at Worthing in which commendable 
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described varieties of plan Sack as “ Lychnis vespertina intermedia 
* and ‘* Polygala sie erecta MS.,” and to pay a little more 
attention to the spelling of proper names. 
Mr. C. Forp, of the Botanic Gardens, Hong Kong, sends us & 
printed “ Index of Chinese Plants in Journal of Botany, vols. i. to 
XvViil.,” which, we believe, was mainly i, ey by Mr. F. B. Forbes 
for his own use e, and has been put in type for the benefit of those 
Sse interested in the Chinese Flora, to whom it cannot fail to 
Tue ‘ Report and Transactions for the year 1882’ of the Bir- 
mingham Natural History and Microscopical Society forms a neat 
8vo volume, the Report occupying 57 and the Transactions 133 
pages. The latter are “besser ne the ‘ Meats Pesos : 
and include Mr. W. B. Grove’s papers on the My 
the reclassification of the Srshinan: We should ‘like ae pat pa 
' prominence given to local matter 
recently issued part of the ‘ Philosophical Transactions’ 
contains a long and important paper on the botanical results of 
experiments on the mixed herbage of permanent meadows, con- 
ducted for more than twenty years in succession on the one land, 
by Sir J. B. Lawes and Drs. Gilbert and Masters. We hope to 
recur to this on an early occasion. 
