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MANUAL OF OKCHIDACEOUS PLANTS. 



about the date of Waterloo." Cypripedium " still occurs in two 

 places." Mr. Lees still prefers his name saxumbra for the interest- 

 ing variety of Carex pilulifera, which Mr. Eidley had named Leesii 

 in compliment to its discoverer. 



We have 46 ferns and fern-allies; 12 Charace^ ; 347 mosses — 

 these and the Hepaticae, 108 in number, being treated with unusual 

 and gratifying fulness ; 234 lichens, raised in the Addenda to 258 ; 

 nearly a thousand (987) fungi ; and 379 fresh-water algse. It will 

 thus be evident that the flora is the most complete which has yet 

 appeared for any county or vice-county in the kingdom. The only 

 noticeable defect is in the index, which should include species as 

 well as genera. 



British botanists will be sincerely grateful to Mr. Lees for this 

 volume. They may be inclined to smile at certain eccentricities of 

 diction, as when Fries is styled (p. 813) " the pater of the specific 

 name " of a plant ; or when we are told of a form which is " often 

 by-passed" for something else; but those who know Mr. Lees' 

 other writings will be prepared for these, and they do not detract 

 from the scientific value of the work. The Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union, under whose auspices it is issued, is to be congratulated on 

 the publication of this handsome addition to our local floras. 



A Manual of Orchidaceous Plants. Part III. Dendrobmm, Bidbo- 



phyllum, and Cirrhopetalwn. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. 

 8vo, pp. 104 ; plates, woodcuts, and maps. Price 10s. 6d. 



The third part of this valuable work treats of the cultivated 

 species of Dendrobitm, with a selection of the showier members of 

 the allied genera Bulbophyllum and Cirrhopetalum. The arrange- 

 ment is the same as in the two preceding parts, and the descrip- 

 tions and scientific details maintain the same degree of excellence. 



Althou 



-aitnougii intended for cultivators, it will be also of great value to 

 botanists, for it is more especially in the showy garden orchids 

 where so much confusion prevails, and the Messrs. Veitch do not 

 scruple to reduce some of the spurious species to their proper rank 

 as varieties, or polymorphisms, of others. About a hundred 

 species of Dendrobium are enumerated, so that only a third of the 

 genus may be considered as generally cultivated. A few others are, 

 however, occasionally met with in gardens. A list of fourteen 

 garden hybrids is given, but only one undoubted natural hybrid is 

 admitted, other reported cases being considered doubtful or illusory. 

 It may be pointed out that the Bulbophyllum Dearei described on 

 p. 95, with the remark, « we have failed to find any published 

 description," ia i/lAnfi^oi mUi i\.„ ^i rt „* AnannhnA ».nrl fiomrp.d in the 



poauun jueam, a name apparently also of garden origin, as wv 

 editor of that paper makes a similar remark respecting it. The 

 work is embellished with a number of woodcuts and two excellent 

 maps, in which the distribution of the cultivated species is approxi- 

 mately given, being printed in colour as nearly as possible where 

 they are known to occur wild : we notice two or three names on the 



