﻿I noticed the following species, unrecorded for Watson's 44th vice- 

 county in Top. Bot. ed. 2 : — Viola Reichenbaehiana Boreau. Wood 

 on limestone near Porthrhydd; it was well advanced in bud on 

 January 15th, and would probably have been in flower, but for the 

 previous week of severe frost. — Rubies rusticanus Mercier. Very 

 common in the district. — R. leucostackys Schleicher. Frequent. 

 These were the only two brambles which it was possible to name 

 with certainty. — Myriophyllum alterniflorum DC. Ditches near the 

 River Gwendraeth. — Vinca minor L. Near Bleany Farm, doubt- 

 fully wild. — Potamogeton nutans L. Slow streams and ditches in 

 the Gwendraeth Valley. — Lastrea spinulosa Presl. Alder copse 

 near the Gwendraeth, below Porthrhydd. — In a narrow wooded 

 ravine, locally called Blaeny Dingle, Galanthus was fairly plentiful, 

 and had all the appearance of a native ; there are no gardens or 

 pleasure-grounds in the immediate neighbourhood. Flowers were 

 opening on January 9th. — I also saw Ranunculus Ficaria L. var. 



F. Schultz in lanes near the village. — Edward S. Marshall,. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 

 The Buitenzorg Gardens. 

 Eine botanische Tropenreise. Von Prof. Dr. G. Haberlandt. (Engel- 



mann, Leipzig. 1893. Pp. viii, 300 ; 51 figs. Price 8 marks). 

 Der botanische Garten zu Buitenzorg auf Java. (Festschrift zur Feier 



seines 75 Jahrigen Bestehens 1817-1892.) (Engelmann, 



Leipzig. 1893. 12 photographs and 4 plates. Pp. 426. 



Price 14 marks.) 

 It would be hard to praise sufficiently Prof. Haberlandt's account 

 of the tropical vegetation he went forth to see. Instead of the 

 riotous mixture of botanical names and superlative adjectives that 

 usually does duty for such accounts, — such as even Kingsley has 

 strung together in At Last, — this book is a sober account of the 

 observations of an accomplished observer, by no means too scientific 

 in its style for the cultured reader, and full of interest for the 

 botanist, whom the author literally enables to see through his eyes. 

 This success is no doubt mainly due to the high state of pre- 

 paration of the author for his journey, but largely also to the fact 

 that the objective of his journey was Buitenzorg, where he found 

 not only a perfect garden, but guidance from the greatest master 

 of the study of tropical vegetation in its biological aspects. He 

 visited Bombay and Singapore on his outward journey, and Ceylon 

 on his homeward route ; but Java and its small adjacent islets is 

 the scene of the most of his studies. One would in fact consider 

 it almost a guide to the advantages of Buitenzorg as a tropical 

 garden, but for the existence of the book which is issued with it by 

 the same publishers — the exhaustive work on Buitenzorg named at 

 the head of this notice. 



