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time for an albino form of T. incarnatum, and unnoticed since, 

 I detected lately in working my trefoils as T. Molinerii Balb. The 

 plant had the habit of the former, but 1 see that my specimens of 

 %M<diherii from three localities in France have the same habit ; so 

 the decumbent growth of it in Cornwall may be, and probably is, 

 due to situation. The Suffolk specimen is very probably a casual, 

 perhaps introduced with foreign seed ; as far as I remember, there 

 was no T. incarnation with or near it. Dr. Hind, in whose company 

 I was at the time, clearly recollects the occurrence, and has my 

 plant entered for Brandon in his Flora of Suffolk, but is not aware 

 of any other case of T. Molinerii being found in the county. The 

 district, however, is one in which trefoils have a hard battle for 

 existence with the rabbits, unless they can flower and fructify 

 prostrate on the ground. — Edward F. Linton. 



Erratum. — P. 87, 1. 17 from bottom, for "Charlton," read 

 "Cuxton." 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 

 Monographic* Phanerogamarum, A. et C. DeCandolle Vol. VIII. 

 Gxittiferas, auctore Juliano Vesque. Paris : G-. Masson, 

 Dec, 1893. 



The new volume of this work is a new departure. It is dedicated 

 by the author to the memory of Alphonse DeCandolle ; and it ap- 

 pears, from a short note of preface by M. Casimir DeCandolle, that 

 his father had accepted this novel form of monograph. 



We have seen indeed the " anatomische methode " in Engler's 

 Jahrbuch and other German publications invading purely systematic 

 work ; but here we have it introduced fully, at one bound, into the 

 DC. Monographies. Another novelty introduced by M. Vesque is 

 the space given to the discussion of the affinities of species upon 

 speculative views of their line of descent ; thus the " Histoire " (in 

 French) prefixed to the genus Garcinia occupies 26 pages. 



The order Guttiferse is understood exactly as in Benth. et Hook, 

 f. Gen. PI. v. 1, p. 167, except that the aberrant genus Quiina is 

 excluded (I do not notice that M. Vesque instructs us to what 

 order he would transfer Quiina). The genera are arranged on the 

 same principles in the same tribes and are given the same limits ; 

 no new genus is proposed. About ten new species only are pro- 

 posed, but several other species were only previously known from 

 Vesque's Epharmosis. For the species, M. Vesque had the advantage 

 to follow the monograph of Planchon and Triana, and (as to the 

 Asiatic genera) the fine work of Pierre. 



M. Vesque's monograph is substantially strictly conservative, 

 and makes therefore a very convenient compilation of the genera 

 and species brought up to date, though its form is rather startling 

 at first. He has departed widely indeed from the standard set by 

 Alph. DC. in the first vol. of these Monographies. 



After the description of one of the larger genera, as Garcinia, 

 cornea a Conspectus of the Sections ; then follows a " Conspectus 



