FLORA OF THE ISLAND OF JERSEY 815 
areas, P. veris being present in abundance, and it is a very different 
plant from all forms of the ohare hybrid P. acaulis x ore 
nor does it show any special preference for wet ground. Th 
of the Tunbridge Wells Common brambles is not iaenliak’ api a 
them were probably bird-sown at first, and are ze ee occurrence 
in the neighbouring parts of Kent and Sussex. nglish 
botanists have more persistently maintained the suiklends of hybrids 
than myself; they are not rare in Rubus, but sheer alone cannot 
account for the great variety which we pos r. Krause, in 
Germany, has pushed this theory to a nbctio 7 absurdum ; and I 
wish to protest, at once, against the adoption of such extravagant 
notions by our countrymen. —Epwarp 8. Marsan 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Flora of the Island of Jersey. By L. VY. Lester-Gartanp, M.A., 
F.L.S. Small 8vo. Pp. 205 " xv, with Map. Price 6s. 
West, Newman & Co., 54, Hatton Garden, pace: Bae 
From several standpoints the latest vac to the bi of British 
local floras is welcome. For the first time in the history of British 
Botany, we are offered a local flora in which the ivetemadis arrange- 
ment of the atten pbacent school of Engler and Prantl is 
followed. Thi indeed, a n bltedt as the author states, 
which will peed provoke nde criticism.” It is doubtful 
whether it will. A systematic classification of plants, cm pe Ai 
the Theory of Descent, has so been eratum among 
scientific botanists, that such a course will ur little opposition, 
except from conservative plant-sorters of t not 
much regret will be expressed at the aisiehitioe of the sae 
evolutionary leva associated with the names of Jussieu and 
De Candolle, which was but little less artificial, and far less con- 
venient, than the so-called sex stem of Linne 
In the by tatedehuniin to his Flora, Mr. Lester (to speak of him by 
his former name, by which he is better known) has so ably utter 
and so clearly established the case for reform, that ‘t is only 
necessary to refer the reader to the fifth section, in order erreee 
man » Denmark, and Italy. The Ae, ee Sapte in pos, 
bibl = vie 
more often fr highangne ta in character. The “bibliography. av 
only serves to show its exiguous value. Not the least useful chapter 
in the volume is the handy classified list of the genera of British 
plants, picked out from Tayler and Prantl’s great w 
