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NATURE NOTES. 
There are nearly a hundred illustrations, many of them very good, others (as on 
pp. 177, 181, 209, 212, about the worst we have ever seen. 
The Brook and its Banks. (R.T.S.) “Is one of the last books from the 
facile pen of the Rev. J. G. Wood,” and, the preface further adds, “ it will be 
found in every way worthy of the reputation of the author.” We are glad to 
endorse this approval and to recommend the handsome illustrated volume to lovers 
of the country as one which will add much to the enjoyment of their rambles, and 
to those pleasant anticipations or reminiscences which are only less delightful than 
the rambles themselves. The flowers, which so conspicuously ornament the banks 
of brooks, are dismissed with somewhat scanty notice ; but there are many other 
books which supply this defect. An index would greatly add to the usefulness of 
this pleasantly written book. 
The Birds in my Garden , by Dr. W. T. Greene (R.T.S. ), is a recent addition 
to a class of literature which is already extensive, and the increase of which gives 
gratifying testimony to the spread of Selbornian views ; for it is to the nature- 
lover rather than to the scientific observer that such books appeal. This 
volume contains an account of the feathered visitants of a suburban garden. 
It is beautifully printed and prettily illustrated, and will doubtless attract a large 
circle of readers. 
Mr. Marshall Ward’s Diseases of Plants (S.P.C.K.) is a handy technical 
manual on an important subject, and may be recommended to the more scientific 
among our readers. 
We have received from Messrs. Cassell and Co., The Rev. Theodore 
Wood’s Life of his father, the Rev. J. G. Wood , which we propose to notice 
at some length in our next issue. , 
SELBORNIAN A. 
Flowers in Hospitals. 
“ They that can wander at will where the works of the Lord are revealed 
Little guess what joy can be got from a cowslip out of the field ; 
Flowers to these ‘ spirits in prison ’ are all they can know of the Spring, 
They freshen and sweeten the wards like the waft of an angel’s wing.” 
Tennyson, In the Children's Hospital. 
“The Sea-blue Bird of March (“.9. S .”) — We can state on the best 
possible authority, that the bird thus referred to by Lord Tennyson is the king- 
fisher. 
Kent Names. — I have heard Kent people speak of a Yellow Hambird (or 
Ambird, for they are not safe with their aspirates). They also speak of the 
“Willow-tit”; but whether that means one species, or the Paricke in general 1 
don’t know. I have seen the Marsh-tit biting off willow-catkins. F. M. Millard. 
Sussex Names (Fernhurst).— The common wren is called “Jugger wren.” 
The white narcissus, which is found in meadows in several places in this parish, 
is called “ Primrose Pearls.” Stag’s horn beettles are “ Pincher bobs.” S. 
[“Jugger wren ” is not in Mr. Swainson’s book. “Primrose Pearls ” is no 
doubt a corruption of “ Primrose Peerless,” an old name for Narcissus biflorus 
mentioned by Lyte and Gerard. Culpeper has “ Primrose Pearls.”] 
Doncaster Plant Names. 
Lady’s fingers 
* Periwinkles ... 
Cheese-cakes . . . 
Bird’s eye | 
Mammy-die f 
King-cup 
Water-blob ... 
Blindy-buff ... 
Milk-maids ... 
Cuckoo flower 
*Open-mouths 
Alchemilla vulgaris 
Wood anemone 
Common mallow 
Speedwell 
( Veronica chavncdrys) 
Lesser celandine. 
Marsh marigold 
Field poppy. 
Cardamine pratensis 
Stitchwort 
Linaria vulgaris 
See foot-note (*) on page 55. 
