REVISION DE PLANTAS VASCULARES FILIPINAS, B47 
paludal flora that found a congenial habitat in the locality, but 
which had gradually dwindled away as the moisture a ished. 
. purum, an . squarrosum. In fivthex oonteate tion of the 
suggested solution of the difficulty it may be mentioned that the 
three plants, eee Parnassia, and Carex binervis, occur rather 
plentifully in a marshy meadow on chalky soil at Totternhoe, Beds. 
They are, howivan, not so abundant in this station as yy = 
Sourn Breps. — aes ree grows penta in 
several ek dows called on Réterahue Meads,”’ and in such circum- 
stances as to suggest that the species is indigenous to the locality. 
‘t grows associated with a rich, truly native flora, its foliage forming 
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—— NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
- Revision de Plantas Vasculares Filipinas, Memoria elevada al Exemo. 
Sr. Ministro de Ultramar. Por EBASTIAN VipaL ¥ SOLER 
Inspector General de 2a. sen J ofe dela Comision. Manila, 
: 1886. 8vo, pp. 454. tes. 
e Tas valuable contribution to Philippine Spee published by 
A cGiority of the Spanish Government, is not exactly a revision of 
the vascular plants of the islands, as ite title would indicate. It is 
really the Report of the Chief of the Forest Flor a Commission to 
the Spanish Ministry, with a revision of the plants collected by 
herbaria visited by him, viz., Kew, the British Museum, Paris, 
Madrid. A few of the principal features of the Philippine Flora are 
also pointed pee us it. 
he Systematic Catalogue deals with numbers 1 to 2000 of the 
Philippine cna half of which were ay jointly = 
Don § myself; the — which were forward 
