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Some New European Floras. 

 Epitome Flora Europa terrarumque affinium sistens plantas Europa, 

 Barb aria, Asia occidentals et centralis et Sibiria, quoad divisions, 

 classes, cohortes, or 'dines, familias, genera, ad characteres essentiales 

 exposita. Auctore T. Caruel. Fasc. i. Monocotyledones ; 

 Fasc. ii. Corollifloraj, &c. Florentise, Jan. 1892, Maio 1894. 

 8vo, pp. 288. 



Flora der nordwest deuUchen Tirfrhnw hearbeitet von Prof. Dr. Franz 

 Buchenau. Leipzig: Engelmann. 1894. 8vo, pp. xv, 550. 



Flore de France: contenant la description de toutes les especes indigenes 

 disposees en tableaux analytiques et illustree de 2165 figures repre- 

 sent ant ' 



A. Acloque. Paris : Bailliere. 1894. 8vo, pp. 816. 

 Tabl am synoptiques des plantes vascul aires de la Flore de la France. 

 Par Gaston Bonnier et Georges de Layens. 5289 figures 

 representant les caractercs de toutes les especes qui sont decrites 

 sans mots techniques, et une carte des regions de la France. 

 Paris : Dupont. [1894.] 8vo, pp. xxvii, 412. Price 9 fr. 

 The titles of these books set forth in some detail their contents 

 and objects, and the pressure on our space prevents our dealing with 

 them at any considerable length. 



Professor Camel's Epitome is accurate and scholarly, and its 

 value is increased by the full and carefully compiled bibliography 

 attached to each genus. It fills for the region of which it treats 

 the position which the (Iniera Phmtamm occupies for the world at 

 large, and, like that work, is written in Latin. A clavis to the 

 genera of each order would, we think, have been a useful addition, 

 and the numbers attached to the genera should run through each 

 order, instead of beginning afresh with each subtribe. When com- 

 pleted this will form a handy volume of reference, as much for the 

 bibliography as for the definition of the genera. 



Prof. Buchenau's Flora of the North-west German plain is an 

 extremely careful descriptive enumeration of the plants of a not 

 very interesting region. The arrangement begins with the ferns 

 and ends with Composita, and the text is in German throughout. 

 The description and notes suggest many interesting points for 

 comparison between this and the British flora, and we hope to have 

 an opportunity of noticing the book at greater length on some future 

 occasion. For the present we must content ourselves with calling 

 the attention of our readers to what is evidently a valuable addition 

 to works of its class. There is a good bibliography ; but the index 

 is confined to the genera, the names of which, by the way, should 

 be at the head of each page — a point of convenience too often 

 neglected. 



French field botanists are to be congratulated on the ample 

 provision which is made for their requirements. The simultaneous 

 issue of two works by competent authors on the Flora of France 

 implies a demand for this kind of literature which reflects favourably 

 upon the attitude of the country towards science. The work of 



