TREES OF GREAT BRITAIN 383 



"in Limited" \ "var. Chesthuntensis" (p. Ill, twice), " raised by 

 William Paul of the Cheshunt Nursery," should of course be 

 Cheshuntensis ; " Lee's Botany of Worcestershire " (p. 148), u Mr. 

 R. Claridge Druce" (p. 153), "Ray, Synopsis 542" (p. 148)— there 

 are only 482 pages in the book ! 



A more serious example of want of thoroughness will be found 

 in the " List of reported Mistletoe-bearing Oaks in England " 

 (vol. ii. p. 334) ; Mr. Elwes, who is responsible for the list, seems 

 to have drawn it up in the most perfunctory manner. The subject 

 is of sufficient interest to justify some historical research, but the 

 earliest date in the list is 1857. No fewer than seven instances 

 are included on the authority — surely neither original nor con- 

 fidence-inspiring ? — of "Leisure Hour, 1873 " (apparently the date 

 of publication) ; one at least might have been entered on the more 

 satisfactory testimony of Mr. Townsend (see Fl. Hampshire, ed. 2, 

 189). The writer of this notice may be pardoned for feeling 

 astonished to find himself entered as the authority for its occur- 

 rence near Plymouth in 1884, seeing that neither then nor at any 

 other time has he been in that neighbourhood ; it would seem that 

 for " Britten, 1884 " should be read " Lees, 1854 " (see PhytoL 

 n. s. i. 192), but this, according to Briggs (Fl. Plymouth, 178) was 

 an error. Here, again, the arrangement is slipshod ; no attempt 

 has been made to bring the localities in one county together, and 

 in some cases the county is not mentioned. 



As will have been gathered from some of the names quoted, 

 the title of the book is somewhat misleading; " the trees of Great 

 Britain " are to be understood as including " all which grow 

 naturally or are cultivated in Great Britain, and which have 

 attained, or seem likely to attain, a size which justifies their being 

 looked on as timber trees." Most of these the authors tell us, 

 they " have seen with [their] own eyes and studied on the spot, 

 both at home and abroad"; and the result is a mass of authenti- 

 cated observation such as has seldom been brought together. The 

 defects which we have pointed out, so far as these are remediable, 

 will, we hope, be absent from future volumes, each of which, we 

 trust, will be supplied with a proper index ; those of arrangement, 

 we fear, cannot be obviated, and they must interfere with the 

 ready consultation of the work. 



James Britten. 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, Ac. 



Under the title Memorials of Linnceus, Dr. Rendle has pre- 

 pared and the Trustees have published a Guide to the collection of 

 portraits, MSS., specimens and books exhibited at the Natural 

 History Museum to commemorate the bicentenary of Linnaeus's 

 birth. The exhibition contains objects lent by the Department 

 of MSS. British Museum and by the Linnean Society, as well as 

 others, including the original specimen of Linnaa collected at 

 Lycksele in Lapland by Linnaeus on May 29, 1732 and sent by 



