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Hypericum linarifolium, &e. The chief difference between Cornwall 
and Belle-ile is that the latter is slightly warmer. Belle-ile is the 
northern or western limit of several remarkable species, e.g. Tolpis 
umbellata, Omphalodes ee sing Plantago subulata, Trixago Apula. 
able 
M. Gadeceau has bee to collect on eee during many 
seasons, and at various seasons of the He gives at the end 
of his bene)! his ‘* Conclusions Génginits.”” " The more general of 
these be summarized: (1) Climate exercises an Hat 
the Poe icon and strength of the winds (which increase the 
transpiration of plants) ; 2) The physical characters of the soil, 
which have much more effect than its cet hae chaps In 
ist 
R. J. Cos 3s ieee is presenting his large herbarium, esti- 
mated to sonkeli about 40,000 species, to the Museum of the Owens 
College, Manchester. Mr. Melvill is for the present retaining the 
cryptogams, grasses, and British plants. A detailed account of 
the herbarium is being prepared for the next annual report of the 
Museum 
we have rec rete acy It carries into En ngland the work 
accomplished by the late Robert Smith (brother of one of the 
authors) for Scotland, and contains a thorough investigation of the 
Leeds and Halifax district and the siege ae si Skipton district, 
on a scale of two inches to the mile, mprises about one 
in farmland. On these maps we are enabled to see at a glance the 
range of uncultivated (using this word in its widest sense) land, 
with the dominant s species. In the letterpress, reproductions of 
p phs are given of the aspect of this varied vegetation, e. g. 
**On a Cotton Grass Moor,” ‘‘ The Undergrowth of an an Open Oak 
Wood,” “The effect of Beech on the Undergrowth,” ‘‘ Undergrowth 
of a Pine Wood,” and many other interesting views. As this 
excellent work goes on, many other gro will bepet ape evolve, 
and a comparison with other work of a ar character—such as 
that of E. A. Wainio in Finnish Lapland, that of Norman in his 
Nee Arktiske Flora, 1894, 1895, and others—and the large amount 
work of this character now being carried on in America, will be 
Sonibie: It is to be een saat atl British botanists will be able hes 
procure this reprint an will study it. The excellent cartography 
