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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Mr. J. G. Baker, of the Kew Herbarium, is intending to print 
this winter a Flora of the English Lake District, and will be glad 
to receive oe ican towards it of new localities for the rarer 
species, and of local n 
We have mans a pista entitled ‘Some Materials for a 
Flora of Wrotham and its neighbourhood’ (West Malling, Cham- 
berlain), compiled by the Rev. J. W. ma The limits of the 
' localities are given. The catalogue seems he e on the whole 
carefully compiled,—although we note one or two improbabilities, 
such as Viola lutea,—and is a useful ation. to our Kentish lists. 
To Linum catharticum i is edits a note which we do not remember 
having met with elsewhere—‘‘ A few stalks of this chewed when 
tired form an Eadie juish: -me-up’. 
We are sorry to learn that the financial position of the Botanical 
Record Club is far from satisfactory, a considerable amount being 
due to the sprees urer. This is in great measure due to the small 
sale of the second edition of the ‘London Catalogue of British 
Mosses’; a we draw ee to the circumstance in the hope 
of increasingeits circulatio 
last part (xci.) the ‘ Flora ober contains Dr. 
Urban’s monograph of the Brazilian Turn 
Tue June number of ‘ Timebri,’ noe Sas of the Royal 
ferarite and “epee Society of British Guiana, contains a 
paper by Mr. G. 8S. Jenman on the India-rubber and Gutta-percha 
trees of that ie n. 
C. Man sn ‘Des Algues Utiles’ (Paris, Doin: 8vo, pp- 88). — 
a apie : : 
A r n U 
es 8vo, pp. 114). — F. Ardisone, ‘ Phycologia Mediterranea’ : 
, Floridee (Varese, Malnati: ee PP. x., 516). — P. Duchartre, 
‘ ‘ hléments de Botanique’ (ed. 8, pt.1., pp. 560: Paris, Bailliére).— 
C. Luerssen, ‘Die P SL rpreee der Pharma ak germanice, oepns: 
Haessel). — T. Twining, ‘ The sve Hot Ai oe : 6d.).— 
Borzi, ‘ Studi Rigologicn’ (Ato, fase. i., pp. V. é ix: Messina, 
Capra).—R. Hess, ‘Die Hig ihachatien und de forsliche V Verhalten 
der Be ae in- Dantechlarid vorkommenden Holz ’ (8vo0, 
,», 164: Berlin, Parey). — P. Kumener, ‘ Der raise in die 
