184 THE LONDON CATALOGUE OF BRITISH PLANTS. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
A NEW ‘LONDON CATALOGUE.’ 
The London Catalogue of British Plants. Part i. Containing the 
British [and Irish] Phenogamia, Filices, Equisetacer, Lyco- 
Edition. [Edited by Frepericx J. Hansury). : Bell 
& Sons. 8vo, pp. 88. Price 6d. : cloth, 1s.; Generic index 
on card, 2d. 
In producing this small work Mr. Hanbury has performed a 
great service. The want of a new London Catalogue has long been 
felt—to use a stereotyped expression which in this case is strictly 
accurate—but it could hardly have been hoped that the want would 
have been so thoroughly supplied. No edition had appeared since 
4—for we may ignore, save as a literary curiosity, the so-called 
‘eighth edition,” issued in 1888, which was a mere reprint of the 
preceding, and invited “inquirers” to address their remarks to the 
compiler, Mr. Watson, who had been two years dead! 
é can well understand that at first this Catalogue will create 
a certain amount of dismay and bewilderment. Cardinal Newman, 
own p i 
clergymen” at the exalted view taken by the ‘Christian Year’ of their 
privileges and responsibilities: and similar wonderment will fall on 
y be 
hand what was meant by Scirpus Caricis, Linaria viscida, Helianthe- 
( ‘alluna Erica, Arenaria sulcata, Calamintha 
arvensis, and very many more: an id to find an 
to that which has been p 
ition vouch eo 
