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Fly Orchis. (From “ The Camera in the Fields,” by kind permission of 
T. Fisher Unwin, Esq.) 
Poisonous Plants of all Countries. By A. Bernhard Smith. Bristol ; John 
Wright and Co. Price 2S. 6d. net. 
Medical students will find this compendious summary useful. Its arrange- 
ment is medical ; but an index enables any particular species to be found. A 
rather unnecessarily full but uncritical list of vernacular names is given, the toxic 
principles are named, and symptoms and treatment enumerated for each group of 
poisons. The plants are concisely described, the terms used being explained in 
a glossary ; but the part of the plant containing the poison is not indicated. 
Thus, though rhubarb occurs among irritants, there is a note that “ this plant has 
no poisonous properties under home cultivation,” a statement hardly borne out by 
a recent case of the fatal use of the leaves as a substitute for spinach. It is 
rather startling to find Narcissus poeticus and N. moschatus put down as British ; 
and, though the printing is good, there are not a few such mis-spellings as 
culus auricormus, which we shall hope to see corrected in the next edition. 
Seaford and Newhaven, with their Surroundings. By George Day. Homeland 
Association. Price 6d. net. 
This admirable guide-book, the thirty-ninth issued by the Homeland Associa- 
tion, is the official publication of the Urban District Council of Seaford. Seaford 
itself is not a very large or fashionable watering-place, it has the recommendation 
of possessing neither pier nor parade, but it has very fine golf-links, and the 
neighbourhood is full of antiquarian interest. Alfriston, with its church, “ the 
Cathedral of the South Downs,” its market-cross, the Star Inn dating from the 
