90 SHORT NOTICES. 
Egyptian MS. of the KIXth Dynasty (B.C. 1800), it brings us 
down to “ Vernon Lee,” most of the writers who have made gardens _ 
their theme bieicns quoted by the way. We should like to have | 
seen extracts from Henry Kingsley’s ‘ Hornby Mills Garden’; and 
Mr. Jeffries, although he more usually deals with the aunaltarels 
— of Nature, might, we think, have been laid under contri- 
butio 
Manas rs. Casseu send us the fourth Series of their ‘ Familiar 
nr Flowers,’ which is unfortunately heralded by a garish 
co s not differ from its predecessors in style; its 
Paptekalanss are idtiankieny though fragmentary, and its letter- 
press is inaccurate. € open on a long statement apropos of 
one apennina, demonstrating the unreasonableness of botanists 
who ‘‘ have too much to say about British plants that are possibly 
not British,’ and proceeding to state that this plant grows wild in 
counties which are known not to produce it. The plant figured as 
Trollius europeaus seems rather T. asiaticus. There is eres 
ree between Lychnis and Silene in the eek stn which accom- 
panies the figure of S. pendula ; and the mystical Sntanpentstion of 
the Pabaloti awe? is as original as it is inaccurate. 
Mr. ma has written a eon little book 28 ‘The Ministry 
of Flowers’ (Sonnenschein & Co.), in which some of the more 
recent obatieve tions upou whales and flowers are Pehifeth to be 
susceptible of moral applicatien. 
LATION Of M. Paul Bert’s ‘First Year of Scientific 
illustrat e botanical portion, which alone concerns us, 
pean 
We have received from Venice the first number of a new 
quarterly journal devoted to y See: ‘ Notarisia,’ edited by Drs. 
G. B. de Toni and D. Levi 
New Booxs. —L. Avinwit BA: & A. Daentn, ‘ Flore de la Haute- 
a (Saint-Dizier, Henriot: 8vo, pp. 586, map).—J. Rarrnay & 
ror pp: ik 128).—E. D. Lasessz & H. Prerret, ‘ ele Terre et = 
Véghioas gered: Masson: 8v0, "pe. vili. 468, 574 cuts). — 
tLLKoMM, ‘ Forstliche Flora von 1 Deutschland und ie RB oe 
(Leipzig, Winter: 8vo, pt. i., pp. 80, 18 cuts). — EH, SrraspurceR, 
* Manuel technique anatomic végétale’ (transl. by J. Goprrin: 
Wy i L 
’ 8vo, pp. arty : 
methysticum ’ (Berlin, Hirachwol 8vo, pp. 60, 1 ta 
