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we do not find here the wealth of observation which places the 
Flora of Plymouth at the head of our local Floras; but this may be 
in part owing to Mr. Bagnall’s retiring disposition. 
Flora: it occupies (with the Hepatice) fifty-six pages, and is almost 
entirely the result of Mr. Bagnall’s observations. The list of lichens 
ed. 
The print and paper of the book are excellent; and Mr. Bagnall 
is to be congratulated on the manner in which he has carried out 
taking 
Commercial Botany of the Nineteenth Century: A Record of Progress 
in the Utilisation of Vegetable Products in the United 
ingdom, and the Introduction of Economie Plants into 
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Mr. Jackson’s more than thirty years’ connection with the 
Museums of Kew renders him obviously the right person to under- 
take a work of this kind: and he has given us a plain straight- 
