818 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 
peculiar to the spot grows or used A grow. Itis a rare plant now, 
and the reason is explain y eadman in his account of 
Yorkshire een Prelia Sionabnsia: After oo the terrible 
conflict at Towton on Palm Sunday, 1461, he $ ‘oak cannot 
conelude this story of Towton Field without an fe sicees to the 
little dwarf pesos. pesu sat - the ‘Field of the White Rose and 
the Red.” They said to have been plentiful at the commence- 
ment of this wt ect “hat Fiitace have taken them away in such 
numbers that they have become rare. Such vandalism is simply 
Lapmporgs = the plants are said to be pee and unable to exist 
The little roses are white, with a red spot on 
the eatitte it each of ee pero and as ey grow old the under 
urface becomes a dull red colour 
Messrs. G. P. Purnam's Boxs, of London and New York, have 
r. C. F. Hol 
intended for ‘young readers as well as old,” — although the acd 
is better adapted to the latter than the for the book may 
Briaitly be regarded as the most complete popu at life of our great 
naturalist. e plates are taken from various sources, and add 
unt 
© him by his peri ache rymen, many of which separa ders 
details which the transatlantic writers could not be cted to 
supply. There isa eens appendix ane a list of Derek 
works, and a somewhat insufficient index 
om en _ preec as Diagrams now being issued by t 
Society for Pro ¢ Christian Raowndie should have boon 
cook before tis. watt hough by no means as advanced as variou 
G which have obtained a deservedly high Siguita tials 
the be Paral extremely useful for village schools where some 
attempt is made, on the lines laid gown by the late Prof. Henaloms 
to instruct and woes the chi in the commoner wil 
garden flowers. We do not quite Metectana what principle hes 
governed the selection: three sheets out of the twelve are devoted 
to the Solanacee. The diagrams are published at a shilling each— 
the price, by the way, of Mr. Carruthers’s “‘ potato-disease” sheet, 
referred to at p. 256, and there said in error to be issued at sixpence. 
og ae acta of the Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, 
——s Office, contains descriptions by Mr. 
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in order that these novelties, which are to be followed by others, 
‘may not be overlooked. The species described are— Physosiphon 
guatemalensis, gira eine denticulatum, B. nigripetalum, Mega- 
—— Clarkei, M. leucorhachis, Bets BY ait Pelexia olivacea, 
‘oly yelper Epidendrum eanum, and Renanthera 
