SHORT NOTES ~ B51 
Angelo and Sea the pt rig situated monastery of 
Pwloobiisteitns. —G. Cuariwer Dru 
ASPLENIUM GERMANICUM AND A, SEPTENTRIONALE IN CUMBERLAND. 
thirty-seven of the latter rarity in splendid con nue growing on 
slate rocks with nearly southern exposure, at an altitude Basis 
600 feet above sea level, in August last.—G. Crartioce Dru 
‘Aranis verna R, Br. Srciry.—This pretty ah eae 
is not re for Sicily in Tornabene’s Flora Sicula, I found 
on Mount Etna, near Milo. It is recorded from the Calabrian 
coast. 4. lo a fe oe and 4. collina were also observed there.— 
G. Cuarmer Druc 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. 
gE have received the ig part of a new serial, The Living 
Plant (Hutchinson & Co.), which ‘claims to be the most up-to-date 
and most carefully produced book on the subject in this or any 
other language.” As to the former of these claims it is perhaps 
the 
too early to speak; but there is ample material in number 
before us to show that the latter cannot 2 maintained. For examnple; 
late V., an unmistakable Sarracenia, is lled ‘‘a species of 
P. 
Cephalotus”’ ; Deine dium gyrans (plate 1) is said to come from 
‘‘India, Ceylon, and Malaga”; the Snowberry (p. 21) is glossed 
Chiococca racemosa, alibooet the figure leaves no doubt that Sym- 
phoricarpus, which usually bears the name of Snowberry, is meant. 
The woodcuts are coarse and by no means characteristic—e.g. what 
is called ‘* Punch-and-Judy Orchid’ (fig. 4) gives no idea of the 
appearance of the flower, and ‘the Haastia of New Zealand” (fig. 8) 
is equally unsatisfactory. The book, indeed, suffers like other 
out of a poetry book. : 
the chief illustrator, eaiiihot be congratulated on ss fancy = nie 
which are weak and uncharacteristic; and the coloured of 
Ragwort, by Sir H. H. Johnston, suggests a not ere siatectoy 
design for a wall-paper. Plate 3 has been removed from our copy, 
but was included in, at any rate, some of the copies placed on sale ; 
it represents Spirea salicifolia, but is lettered ‘‘ Meadowsweet, 
—— aa Uimaria.” This argues gross ghee mens somewhere; and 
e quite sure that Dr. R endle, who is § to be responsible 
for eatiap ‘‘ thoroughly revised” the work cin ape cannot have 
had the pishes: submitted im. room for a book of 
this kind, but ae a, issues = ormspomiageal — 
lavish promises Gain in their J eeceaa 
