398 Catalogue of British Plants. 
addition to our stock of such works, and one that was really needed. 
To the resident botanist it will of course be acceptable, and the 
tourist will be supplied, for the first time, with a botanical guide to 
the north-east of Scotland. Even the distant botanist will feel an 
interest in the work, from the circumstance of its describing the 
plants found in the most northern part of Britain, and concerning 
which there have hitherto existed only scattered notices." Mr 
Watson mentions that he has a specimen of Eriophorum pubescens 
from Allangrange in the county of Ross. " Hordeum murinum is 
stated to be unknown northward of Moray, and in the counties of 
Aberdeen and Banff. We believe that a locality for this species, 
near the town of Aberdeen, has been published, though we are un- 
able to refer to it exactly, at the present moment ; and another lo- 
cality for the same species in Sutherland, is mentioned in the " Out- 
lines of the Distribution of British Plants," a work which Dr 
Murray's preface intimates that he has seen." 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 
Catalogue of British Plants. Printed for the Botanical Society of 
Edinburgh. 1836. Edinburgh, Maclachlan and Stewart, Carfrae. 
London, Longman and Co. Baldwin. 
THE Catalogue published by the Botanical Society is an admir- 
able example of the multum in parvo, and, looking to its price, we 
might add, of the mulium PRO parvo. We have here, on one side 
of a sheet of paper, the fullest list of British plants, both species 
and varieties, yet published ; the authority for every name being 
added. All the species or varieties, found within sixteen miles of 
Edinburgh being distinguished by marks indicating the conditions 
under which they exist, namely, ' e very common less common, but 
of frequent occurrence abundant in one or two localities rare 
doubtfully native certainly introduced others beyond sixteen, 
but within thirty miles of Edinburgh." This catalogue includes 
1636 species and 149 varieties of plants reputed British, and marks 
894 species and 18 varieties as appertaining to the tract of country 
within a radius of thirty miles of Edinburgh. Of these, ninety-one 
are considered to be introduced species, and forty-three to be doubt- 
ful. It is calculated to be useful, not only to local botanists and the 
members of the society, but to British botanists at large ; and the 
careful and accurate manner in which it has been drawn up, reflects 
much credit on the individual (or more probably individuals) to 
