192 tHe FLORA OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
aron F. von Mueller described his P. tenuicaulis (Fragm. Phyt. 
Austr. 1858, 1, pp. 90 and 244). Twenty-two years after this, Dr. 
Buchenau, in "Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen. vol. 7, pp. 32-33 Seceiall 
described P. parvifolia from Madagascar ; long before this the plan 
had been gathered in Northern India, and distributed under che 
made, except by a student of the genus. It had been gathered in 
ica by Welwitsch, and named P. H uillensi by him. 
Bot. 1887, p. 177, failing to see a type- specimen of j “ety I wrote, 
“it seems distinct from tenuicaulis,” yet I had then seen Bo 
Barter’s Niger ay was the same as Mueller’s (¢fr. l.c., p. 178). 
It was left to Dr. Schinz, by the aid of a specimen, seen and 
sage y by Hasskarl as his plant, to determine for certain that they 
were same; but Dr. T. Morong had previously ean — 
Formosan and Korean specimens with Mueller’s spec 
Schinz iin a full account of its synonymy, history, ona “aistri- 
bution; to ~~ latter may be added— 
Cuma. —Prov. Shantung, Maingay 170! 
JAVA. si kad, No. 905 
CA. ee lake near Jeba, Barter, No. 1069! §.E. Africa, 
Commander Nelson 
Mapagascar. — Kaloscari, — Schur in herb. ———_ 
Humblot, No. 880! Baron, No. 4 137 ! —- Artaur BENNE' 
Lycopoprum aLpinum.—When I was in Wales last summer, I 
noticed on the hills to the south-west of Bethgelert a curiou 
growth of Lycopodium alpinum, which may be worth recordin ng. 
The plant formed what were apparently the so-called “fairy rings.’ 
sixteen yards across. At their circumference the plant was most 
uxuriant, reminding one of a box edging. Inside the circles et 
were scattered slate: but these were much impoverished.—Henr 
NOTICES. OF BOOKS. 
The Flora of Warwickshire. The Flowering Plants, Ferns, Mosses, 
and Lichens by James E. Baenaut, A.L.S.; the Fungi by 
W. B. Grove, M.A., and J. E. Baanatz. London: Gurne 
and Jackson. 1891. 8yo, pp. xxxiv. 519, map. Price £1 1s. 
Pressure of material and limited space have prevented us from 
reviewing earlier this useful addition to our local Floras, _— 
although dated 1891, reached us a welcome Christmas presen 
s to tical: to 
point out, indeed, the merits, but not to ignore ‘the defects, of ‘the 
book submitted to him: and thus it happens that some eS ve 
notices of een shag sei savoured of a well-known p he 
Book n Prayer, pointing out that the compilers “kava 
done those ‘things whieh | (they) ought not to have done, and have left 
undone (those things which -~< ought to have done.” er For this 
_ of criticism Mr. Bagnall’s 
