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‘ Supplement to Topographical Botany,’ Ed. 2, by Mr. Arthur 
Bennett, F.L.S., has been reprinted from the ‘Journal of Botany’ 
by West, Newman and Co., price 3i-., 118 pp., as has the ‘Index 
Abecedarius,’ an alphabetical Index to the first edition of the 
‘ Species Plantarum ’ of Linnaeus, price ix. Compiled by W. P. 
Hiern, F.R.S. 
Subscriptions are invited to a ‘ Flora of West Lancashire,’ by 
our members ; Messrs. J. A. Wheldon and Albert Wilson, 4 Eaton 
Road, Ilkley, price loj. 6d. 
‘ Notes on the Life History of British Flowering Plants,’ by 
the Right Hon. Lord Avebury, P.C. Macmillan and Co., price 15J., 
pp. xxiii, 450, 1905. 
‘ Classification des Saules d’Europe et Monographic des Saules 
de France.’ A. and E. G. Camus, Paris. J. Merich, 1904. 
‘ Die Farn-und Bluten Pflanzen von Tirol, &c.’ Prof. Dr. 
K. W. V. Dalla-Torre and Ludwig Grafen von Sarnthein. Inns- 
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‘ The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland,’ by Henry John 
Elwes, F.R.S., and Augustine Henry, M.A. Vol. i. pp. xiv, 200, 
tt. 60, Edinburgh. Privately printed. Subscription price, ^^15 I5^. 
The first volume of this sumptuous work, in which will be 
described about 300 species of Trees native to or introduced to 
Britain, and in which much original work will appear, is excellently 
done. In it is mentioned a variety of the Weeping Beech which is 
said to be native in Milton Park, Northants, under the name Fagus 
sylvaitca, L., var. miltonietisis^ Elwes and Henry, and under Taxus 
baccata, L., the var. fastigiata (Lind.) is said to be indigenous at 
Florence Court, Ireland. The var. Dovastoni (Loudon) is also 
included. The Wyre Forest Sorb is named Pyriis Sorbus, Gaertn. 
(vice F. domestica, Ehrh.), and the trees in the Botanic Garden 
at Oxford are said to be seedlings from the Wyre Forest tree, 
planted by John Sibthorp. Pyrus latt/olia^Bo^vf&W Syme, replaces 
P. rotundifolia^ Bechst., and under it are put var. rotundifolia, 
Bechst., and var. decipiens (Bechst.), which occurs in Sornerset, 
Denbigh, S. Devon and E. Ross? 
