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Genus II. Platysma ( Hffm .), Nyl. 
a. Stirps, Pl. nivalis. 
Sp. 1 Pl. nivale ( L.), Nyl. 
2 Pl. cucullatum (Bell.), Nyl. 
b. Stirps, Pl. scepincolce. 
3 Pl. saspincola ( Ehrh .), Nyl. 
4 Pl. ulophylla (Ach.), Nyl. 
5 Pl. diffusum (Webr.), Nyl. 
6 Pl. Fahlunense ( L .), Nyl. 
7 Pl. polyschizum, Nyl. 
c. Stirps, Pl. commixti. 
8 Pl. commixtum, Nyl. 
d. Stirps, Pl. juniperini. 
f. 1, tenuisectum (Fr.Jil.), Cromb. 
9 Pl. juniperinum (L.), Nyl. 
* Pl. pinastri ( Scop .), Nyl. 
e. Stirps, Pl. glauci. 
10 Pl. glaucum (L.), Nyl. 
f. 1, fallax, ( Webr.), Nyl. 
2, coralloideum (Wallr.), Leiglit. 
3, ampullaceum ( L .), Hffm. 
4, tenuisectum, Cromb. 
11 Pl. lacunosum (Ach.), Nyl. 
(To be continued.) 
HANDBOOK OF BIRMINGHAM. 
This Handbook, prepared for the members of the British Asso- 
ciation by a local committee, is a step in the right direction. 
Part V. is devoted to Botany, under the general superintendence of 
W. Mathews, M.A. The list of Flowering Plants and Ferns com- 
piled by J. E. Bagnall, A.L.S., as also that of the Mosses, 
Hepaticas, and Lichens, the Algae by A. W. Wills, and the Fungi 
by W. B. Grove, B.A. Although we cannot admire the plan 
adopted fortlie Flowering Plants, the list is the most complete of the 
noteworthy plants. The other sections are starved out for lack of 
space. Nevertheless the idea is a good one, and there is no reason 
why, in similar attempts, more complete lists should not be given, 
exclusive perhaps of the generally distributed species which are 
found all over the islands. We have been assured that the 
individual authors of the several communications are not respon- 
sible for their bareness. Fourteen small sized pages for all the 
Cryptogamia, including introductory matter, is a ridiculously small 
space, unless it be taken into account what an enormous field the 
whole “ Handbook ” was designed to cover, of Topography, 
Education, Art Manufactures, Archgeology, Geology, Petrography, 
Zoology, Botany, and an Appendix of Sundries, to be included in 
less than 400 of 12mo pages. 
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