808 THE SPECIES OF EPILOBIUM OCOURRING NORTH OF MEXICO. 
New Bucxs Prants. — In the neighbourhood of Chalfont St. 
Peters the Rey. F. H. Woods gathered last year Peucedanum palustre 
and Polygonum dumetorum, which are both new to Bucks. I have 
seen specimens of eac G. C. Druce. 
Monmovrn County Reco — During a brief holiday in fe 
spent at peas " abiained the following plants, which, c 
mon as they are, have not hitherto been recorded for the Soneay. 
“They were all pect within the limits of Monmouthshire (Top. 
‘Bot., vice-county :—Arenaria serpyllifolia (spharocarpa Tenore), 
Vicia sepium, V. tetrasperma, Polygala vulgaris (eu-vulgaris, segregate), 
Geranium dissectum, Conium maculatum, Scleranthus annuus var 
Comital Distribution,’ issued in : pperiet with the (? defunct) 
Record Club, but without personal author This also I met 
with on the Soak peice Monmouth ond Trelleck. — WILLIAM 
WHITWELL, 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
The Species of Epilobium occurring North of Mewico. By Wii11aM 
Treteass. (From the Second Annual Report of a Missouri 
Botanical Garden.) 8vo, pp. 49, with 48 plates. 
Tue typography and “ get-up’’ of this concise monograph leave 
nothing to be desired, and it forms a very handy introduction to 
the willow-herbs of the United States and British North America. 
Thirty-nine species are recognised, of which FH. holosericeum, E. 
delicatulwn, and BE. clavatum are described for the first time 
Prof ed the large amountof herbarium 
material placed at his disposal with great care and ability, and 
seems to have steered a middle hk between the “lumping” and 
the - one schools, At the same time, to aude from the 
internal e mae 
pee “a has therefore been allan in not 
inpting: with one or two Saireamy to deal with hybrids. 
ee of herbarium work will ever fit a man to settle the position 
mae ena “critical” things; a good out-door knowledge of the 
and the variations to which they are ‘liable, is 
: — res, are, nee walo, sie, and ‘give a good general 
‘notion of the plants illustraied ; those of E, anagalludfolinn, ee he 
