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from his experiences. We note, in passing, for instance, the curious statement 
that in the course of some fourteen years all the white-flowered specimens of 
FritiHaria Me/eagris “have reverted to the original type.” We should be glad 
of an explanation of this, which is not in accordance with our experience. At 
Elmore Court, Gloucestershire, for instance, where the white form alone was 
introduced by the late Sir William Guise, the flowers are, we believe, still all 
white. Is it that the coloured form has increased and the white one died out, 
or do bulbs which once bore white now bear coloured flowers ? The beautiful 
specimen of the photographic illustrations, which by the courtesy of the pub- 
li.shers we are able to reproduce here, representing the growth of Marram — or, 
as Mr. Haggard prefers to spell it, Marum — grass at Kessingland accumulating 
the sand which Lowestoft loses, shows that the author does not narrowly confine 
his observation to the limits of the garden. We feel for him in his difficulty 
as to the technical names and their plurals ; but we cannot help thinking that 
he would do better to follow the recognised rules, to spell ordinary specific names 
such as grandis, aelestis, &c., with small initial letters, and to reduce generic 
names to one letter and not to three or four. C. will then stand for the singular 
or plural of Cattleya or Cypripeditim, and is generally preferred to “ Catts. ” or 
“Cyps.,”just as the author writes “II. Rider Haggard” and not “ H. Rid. 
Haggard.” The get-up of the volume leaves nothing to be desired. 
Stories from Natural History. By Richard Wagner. Translated from the 
German by G. S. Macmillan and Co. Price is. 6d. 
This excellent little book is precisely what its title indicates, nearly eighty 
Gkksk. (Erom a i)hotogra))h by Charles Reid. By permission of 
^Iessrs. Macmillan.) 
stories of animals of all classes, of important plants, such as cotton and tea, and 
even of the mineral world, as represented by a roof-tile or a phosphoius-match. 
