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colour. This colouring makes a pleasing contrast, though not so 

 effective as the normal tint. I have never heard of an albino 

 form of this fruit before. — Eleanor Armitage. 



[The form though unusual is by no means unknown : Wither- 

 ing (1776) says: "Fruit purplish, sometimes white." — Ed.] 



Isle of Wight Plants. — While in the Isle of Wight early in 

 October last I noticed Geranium rotundifolium L. growing in 

 some plenty in a lane at Alverstone, near Sandown. This species 

 is recorded for the neighbourhood of St. Lawrence only, in the 

 Flora of Hants, ed. 2. I also remarked on St. Boniface Down an 

 abundance of Ulex minor Eoth, the only localities for which in 

 the Isle of Wight given in the flora are St. Helens Spit, Sandown, 

 and Shanklin. — H. W. Pugsley. 



Yet another plant may be added to the Flora of the Isle of 

 Wight, and also as a fresh record for Hants. In a letter received 

 from Mr. C. E. Salmon he writes: "Did I tell you of Herniaria 

 hirsuta in very small quantity on old wall near St. Lawrence, 

 Miss Tulk, 1910? I have seen specimen." There is no record of 

 its having been seen in Hants since 1881. — Fred. Stratton. 



Medicago tribuloides Desv. (p. 350). — Mr. Salmon points 

 out that he recorded this for Shoreham in Journ. Bot. 1909, p. 21, 



BE VIEWS. 



A Manual Flora of Egypt. By Dr. Eeno Muschler. With a 

 Preface by Prof. Paul x\scherson & Prof. Georg Schwein- 

 FURTH. Two vols. Cloth, 8vo. Pp. xii. 1312. Berlin: 

 Friedlander & Sohn. 1912. Price £2. 

 Although the flora of Egypt has been specially studied by 

 several botanists of high reputation, a work like the present has 

 long been badly wanted. Modern research has robbed Forskal's 

 Flora JEgyptico-Arabica and Dehle's Florce ^gypiacce, Illustratio 

 of much of their original usefulness ; and though the remark 

 does not apply to the lists pubhshed from time to time by 

 Professors Ascherson and Schweinfurth, those lists are accessible 

 neither to student nor traveller, nor do they give the descriptive 

 information desired by both. Boissier's Flora Orientalis goes 

 over some of the gronnd, it is true ; but besides being very costly, 

 it contains a great body of facts superfluous from the present 

 point of view. There remains virtually only Post's Flora of Pales- 

 tine which, though it may be helpful in Egypt, is as likely as not 

 to fail in clearing up some doubtful identification. We have 

 therefore been anticipating with pleasure the appearance of the 

 present book, and now that it has come to hand, are glad to know 

 that, in its case, reality comes fully up to expectation. 



The plan of the work will be familiar to anyone who has used 

 the colonial floras issued from time to time in this country. After 

 the definition of the Natural Order, to which is appended a short 

 account of its properties and uses, a key to the genera is given, 

 and then under every genus a clavis of its species, followed by a 



