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which it was not considered desirable to include in a purely botanical 
work, though the references are of great use in tracing and naming 
cultivated plants. 
Trees and Shrubs of the Bombay Presidency.—Mr. W. A. Talbot 
F.L.S., Deputy Conservator of Forests, has compiled what he modestly 
entitles a systematic list of the trees and shrubs and w oody climbers of 
the Bombay Presidency. Sind and North Kanara are included, and 
are referred to separately by name throughout the book. It is, however, 
very much more than a list, as it contains brief descriptions of the orders, 
genera, and cies, together with references to Hooker’s Flora o 
real merits or defects of such a book are discovered by using it; but 
from a cursory examination it appears to have been prepared very 
carefully, and it is certainly singularly free from peli gee errors. 
The arrangement, paper, and typography are go and the book is 
by forest officers. The author expresses a naa that it a, form 
Zealand outlying erudi is situated in 54? S. lat .and previous to 1880 
only about half a ess vascular plants were knowa from thence, sent 
of the Otago Daiversiy, visited the i island, and M Died = number 
i wo such aris 
as Stilbocarpa po 
and Pleurophyllum — , which also inhabit the Aukin and 
Campbell Islands, and the forakt the mainland o 
Another interesting plant, and one of the commonest, is Azorella 
Selago, which has not been found in the New Zealand Islands, but has 
a westward distribution in the Marion, Crozets, Kerguelen, and Heard 
ome and in Fuegia 
Thos. Kirk has recently sent Eee -— Eee flowering 
‘iting from the same source, collec ied by V Hamilton. They 
are :—Zanunculus crassipes, a Kerguelen viae "Caitieriehe antarctica 
psia cespitosa, in a perated condition; Festuca, sp 
Agrostis antarctica, Uncinia compacta, var. nervosa ; an 
seedling of Epilobium nummularifolium attached to the roots of the 
last. Fragments ofthe following mosses and liverworts were ner 
attached to the other plants :—Bartramia affinis, Posee Tur nens 
Cheiloscyphus australis, Jungermannia rotata, hoe Arse 
and Polyotus magellanicus, besides an indeterminable prem opus ? 
and a Jungermannia. Mr. Kirk writes that the total number of species 
ar 
several of which, however, have A come under observation at Kew 
We have also one more addition to the vascular plants of Macquarie 
Island, namely, Lycopodium Baldo; which was attached to the same 
sheet of paper as the original specimen of Azorella Selago, sent by 
Charles Fraser. "This widely dispersed Iv is not known from any 
. of the other islands south of New Zealand 
