LIST OF THE ALIEN FLORA OF GREAT BRITAIN 141 
cussion of its various names. These headings are eu sup- 
pe by — from the authors laid under contribut 
‘* Plant-writers before Clus ; beginn shi with 
Hippo ocrates, Strip on to Aristotle, Phos phiaatun; Vergil, Celsus, 
and Columella (to take the principal names only), are separately 
Raat and the work known by its opening phrase as ‘ Circa 
in stans,” Torkaud by Prof. Burgess ‘* the focus of medieval plant- 
lore,” and the source of ‘‘ Le Grant Herbier”’ (more familiar in this 
soatiees in its English version as ‘*The Grete Herball”), whose 
compiler was Matteo Plateario. 
German and miscellaneous plant-workers, from ae and 
Albertus Magnus, including Bartholomezus Anglicu , and Pier de’ 
Crescenzi, ea then Gnanoeaat with appropriate’ Socntieeieaia 
and at last we approach the dawn of modern science, with such 
men as Fianstiha Bock, and Saonhasl Fuchs, covering ground 
eee is more or less familiar to all of us. 
n to this period Aster was regarded as monotypic, but with 
the pu of Clusius and his fellow-countrymen, Dodoens and 
Lobel, more discrimination was shown. Clusius enumerated eight 
species of Aster, and with this widened outlook the author closes 
his review. Regarding polytypic Aster, he says (p. 418) :—* Into 
these periods it is not at present our purpose to enter; the details 
of Aster history, as already remarked, are better pursued, rite 
Clusius, species by species.’’ Some addenda and errata, a page to 
a : : 
entirely unaware of the recent researches of M. Legré, whose labours 
have cast a flood of light info many dark passages in the can of 
such men as Pena, Lobel, and Clusius himself, for then y state 
ments would have been otherwise expressed. Some of the translations 
rendered. the reviewer has no desire to be captious; the bal 
account here given amet very little idea of the enthusiastic 
manner in whic e author has set out every sentence in the 
i ded to 
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most apt with ss to this mis SR : ‘*Man muss das Bech selbat 
B. Daypon Jackson. 
A Preliminary List of the Alien Flora of Great Britain. By 
A., F.L.8. 8vo, pp. 80. Price Fourpence. 7 Wost, 
Tue British ibhacit _ ee Mr. Dunn’s list at random— 
say at p. 21—is likely to receive a shock when he finds Daboecia 
(which priority-lovers must call ii Boretta) polifolia, Erica ‘vagans, and 
