HEREFORDSHIRE FLORA. 
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Presumably it was inevitable that more instances than agreeable 
should be met with of literal errors in the printing of specific 
names, notwithstanding the care exercised with a view to prevent- 
ing it. There are some letters which the ordinary compositor 
seems to delight in turning the wrong side up, and this persistency 
is observable here and there. 
Taken as a whole, we presume that the present Flora will be 
accepted as generally satisfactory, notwithstanding the absence of 
any records of the llepaticce , Lichens, and the Fresh Water Algse, 
the former being particularly remarkable, as they are often 
collected and studied by bryologists. In the preface these omis- 
sions are alluded to in the following terms : — “ It is with much 
regret that we have to omit all account of the Hepaticse in this 
Flora. ‘ Ars longa, 7 and though some considerable material has 
been gathered towards an account of the Herefordshire Hepaticse, 
chiefly by the labours of Mr. B. M. Watkins, yet the whole subject 
remains as yet too incomplete to justify publication. We do not 
know, beyond the work done as mentioned above by Mr. Lees in the 
Malvern District, anything has yet been attempted in the County 
of Hereford as regards Lichens or Algge.” 
The general appearance of the work is good, the type clean and 
clear, and the arrangement suitable for ready reference. We may 
have seen better paper employed, even for a County Flora, but that 
is a matter of detail. Certainly it is to be hoped that the Wool- 
hope Club will not be pecuniary sufferers by this praiseworthy 
effort, and that it will soon be reimbursed the whole outlay in the 
production of this volume. 
CHAMPIGNONS DE LA FHANCE. 
We approach a somewhat unwelcome task in noticing, rather 
critically, the later Plates issued by Capt. Lucand, in his large 
quarto “ Figures peintes de Champignons de la France,” which, 
as we have before observed, are intended as a continuation of 
the celebrated Plates of “ Bulliard’s Champignons de la France.” 
The present work has now reached its eleventh part and the 
275th Plate, and costs no less than £16 10s. 0d., which is 
double the published price of the 292 Plates given in the first two 
volumes of another work on “ The Fungi of Britain,” published 
in this country. Although the paper is larger in the French 
work, the paper is all that is furnished for the extra money. 
Undoubtedly there is no advantage given in artistic execution, 
nor do we think in scientific accuracy, but on these points our 
opinion may be supposed to be a prejudiced one. 
Let us, however, confine ourselves to the 25 Plates included 
in this present Part XI., commencing with Plate 251, Lepiota 
naucina, Fries. Beneath this Plate there are synonyms given, 
or presumed synonyms, which are rather extraordinary, and 
