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of thes 
especially those done by ames Sages and Sydenham Edwards ; ; 
plates. The collection also includes some of the poorest work that 
ever appeared in the Magazine. In 1815 Sydenham Edwards 
seceded, and a for the rival Botanical Register; Sowerby had 
ceased contributing, and there seems to have been a lack of novelties 
for illustration. Towards the end of Dr. Sims's editorship, in 
I i great 
measure by the ical Register, then co oy the vigorous 
dley. Its circulation greatly decreased, and the impression was 
small ; hence this series is very rare. following year, however, 
= William 00. ame editor, and o— raised ol the 
and botanical character of the Magazine. Man the 
pats eine during the latter half of De Sims’s olitonehin ate 
signed, but all the drawings are; and we learn that William 
Hooke the artist of the Paradisus Londinanels, was an occasio 
piss aie The collection also contains a number of unpublished 
THe Hevori of the Felsted School Natural History Society es 1890 
contains a a Song ‘‘list of rare, local, or otherwise interesti ritish 
in the Saeed s Weed Gardens,” and two or Be 
additions | to ng local Flora 
SoravER Soaked shetest number of a new journal, the 
Zeitschrift fir Pflanzenkrankheiten, which is to be devoted to the 
diseases of plants. It is published by Ulmer, Stu uttgart. 
Tue second volume of Prof. Sargent’s sumptuous Ace os 
North America has been issued; it carries the enumera 
We have received the second edition of the Flora of the Stony- 
hurst District (Clitheroe, Parkinson). The district is a ten miles’ 
ao from Stonyhurst College, and includes portions of West and 
th Lancashire and Mid-Wes t Yo rkshire. ‘There is no author's 
Tae Rey. Adrian Peacock is collecting sabatale te a Flota of 
Lincolnshire. Conimunitatatts should be addressed to him at 
Cadney Vicarage, Brigg. 
Newspaper Botany is almost always funny, but Mr. W. R oberts, 
who writes in the Pall Mall Gazette of June 28rd to correct Lord 
F spogc te Churchill’s nomenclature, is in advance of most of his 
ombretum”’ is quoted from his paeer h 8 genes with 
“(se)” appended to it, and aoe ne ” is give e correct 
a fragrans, *” says Mr. Roberts severely,” ‘looks well, 
bare readers would understand what was meant much better if the 
single name of ‘ Olive’ were given.” Olea fragrans is of course not 
Olive, but an old name for Osmanthus fragrans. The lofty tone of 
Mr. Roberts's letter is very amusing. 
