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indispensable to the botanist who wishes to know not only the French 

 Flora but the Botany of the British Isles. The enormous Herbarium 

 on which it is based is now in the possession of Prince Roland 

 Bonaparte in Paris. 



A Flora de Portugal, disposita em chaves dichotomicas. A. 

 X. P. Coutinho. pp. 7, 766, 1913. Lge. 8vo. Ailland, Alves & 

 Co., Paris. A very useful, compact, and much needed work relating 

 to the interesting flora of S.W. Europe. It begins with the Filicales, 

 the genus Nephrodium being retained instead of Dryopteris, then 

 follow the Gymnosperms, then the Monocotyledones, Typha coming 

 before the Grasses. Sparganium neylectum and Alopecurus fulvus are 

 sunk to varieties, whereas Air a multiculmis is kept distinct from A. 

 caryophyllea, and has the variety divaricata (Pourr.). Corynephorus 

 canescens, often an inland species in Portugal, has a var. maritima 

 Godr. given, which is probably identical with our coast plant. 

 Bromus rigens L. has its var. a. maximus Desf . Ulmus glabra Miller 

 has two varieties, corylifolia (Host) and suberosa (Moench), and is the 

 only species of Elm given. Mesembryanthemum edule, with which I 

 identified the Cornish plant in my List, is given as being extensively 

 naturalised, and I have seen it in great masses on the coast, but 

 neither acinaciforme or equilaterale (with which the Cornish plant 

 has, I think, been wrongly identified) are included. Spergularia 

 atheniensis, with rose-lilac flowers, is said to be frequent, as it is on 

 the south coast of Spain. Fumaria capreolata has two varieties, a. 

 pallidijlora and b. speciosa (Jord.). Sisymbrium Sophia appears 

 under the unusual name Descuirainia Sophia Webb & Berthelot. 

 The Water Cress is still called Nasturtium, but palustris and amphibia 

 are put under Roripa Scop. Reseda stricta is made a variety of R. 

 lutea. In Portugal Spiraea denudata is treated as the type as 

 Filipendula Ulmaria with a var. nivea (Wallr.), which is our common 

 plant. I think deuudata is more frequent in the western part of the 

 British Isles. 28 species of Rubi are given, but Potentilla procumbens 

 is not included. Is it really absent from Portugal 1 Medicago 

 hispida is given as in my List as the aggregate under which are 

 grouped denticulata, lappacea, etc. The purple umbellate-flowered 

 Oxalis from Brazil is 0. Martiana Zucc, while the purple one-flowered 

 Cape plant is 0. variabilis var. rubra J acq. The Bladder seed Danaa 

 cornubiense L. is treated as a variety (not synonymous) of Physo- 



