220 FLOBA OF WEST YORKSHIRE. 



of the scheme originally projected, by the inclusion of the collateral 

 objects, Climatology and Lithology " ; and those into whose 'hands 

 the present volume may come will have no reason to regret the time 



spent upon its preparation. 

 In 



our 



local floras leaves nothing to be desired. The selection and 

 employment of the various types is excellent, and the paper and 

 printing equally so. The actual flora is extremely interesting 

 reading ; there is that evidence throughout of personal observation 

 and intimate knowledge of the plants as they occur in the district, 

 which has never been better evidenced than by Mr. Archer Briggs 

 in his ' Flora of Plymouth,' and the absence of which, owing to his 

 lamented death, is a conspicuous defect in Mr. Pryor's * Flora of 

 Hertfordshire.' Mr. Lees has been fortunate in his helpers, to one 

 of the most important of whom, the Rev. W. W. Newbould, the 

 • volume is fittingly dedicated ; but in so saying we in no way 

 detract from the claims of Mr. Lees to the credit of the general 

 excellence of the work. 



A detailed review of a local flora can only be undertaken 

 satisfactorily by one who has a knowledge of the district to which 

 it is devoted. The present writer can claim no such knowledge, 

 and his remarks must therefore be on the general scope of the work : 

 Mr. J. Gr. Baker, who is of course the man for such a task, con- 

 sidering himself disqualified from undertaking it by the help which 

 he had given to the author. The essays on climatology and 

 lithology, which seem very carefully done, occupy between them 84 

 pages ; they are followed by 13 pages of bibliography (nearly three 

 more are added in the appendix) ; and after a short " plan of the 

 Flora " (in which we are glad to note a definition of the meaning to 

 be attached to the words "common," "rare," and the like), the 

 Flora proper begins. 



The species are numbered throughout — the Flora including 995 

 phanerogams, undoubted aliens and errors being very properly 

 unnumbered; and the local name, "Hedge Feathers," which is 

 new to us, assigned to the first species, Clematis Vitalba (which the 

 author thinks "just possibly native " in West Yorkshire), reminds 

 us to call attention to this too-often neglected feature in a local 

 flora. Mr. Lees has evidently devoted much care to obtaining the 

 plant-names used in the district. He suggests a new "lineal 

 arrangement" for the Batrachian Banunculi, agreeing in the main 

 with that of the ■ Student's Flora.' " 0. B. Gr." seems to us an in- 

 convenient way of referring to the * Botanists' Guide.' He accepts 

 Nympkm {Cmtalia) as native, although it is " very rare in a truly 

 native state." The suggestion that the name Fumitory may be a cor- 

 ruption of Junius term, "from the grey glaucous hue of the curling 

 foliage, resembling masses of cloud or smoke-wreaths," has, we 

 think, been made before ; but the old name, as Dr. Prior says, no 

 doubt arises "from the belief that it was produced without seed 

 from vapours rising from the earth." Helper is ranks as a denizen, 

 and is persistent at Bolton. "Hand-flower" is given as a local 

 name for Cheiranlhus—" formerly (and probably still) the cut 



