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Mar., 1889 . 
Equisetum fluviatile. (Var. of E. limosuvi.) Plentiful in boggy 
woods near Worcester, Great and Little Malvern; indeed 
generally, E. Lees; near Worcester, T. Westcombe. 
Mr. Newman’s well-known “ History of British Ferns,” 
of which the first edition was published in 1840, and the 
second in 1844, contains no new Worcester records. 
The Rev. W. L. Baynon, Rector of Seal, Surrey, who 
resided at Bewdley, in or about the year 1835, was a botanical 
correspondent of my friend, the Rev. J. H. Thompson, the 
present Incumbent of Cradley. He informed Mr. Thompson 
that, at that date, Drosera rotundifolia, Erodium marithnum , 
and Radiola millegrana were growing at Pedmore Common, 
near Stourbridge. They are not now to be found there. 
The localities of these, and other rare plants in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Kidderminster and Bewdley, were communicated 
by Mr. Baynon to The Ten Town's Messenger , a newspaper 
published at Kidderminster at that time. I have not succeeded 
in procuring the paper containing Mr. Baynon’s communi¬ 
cation, and am therefore unable to incorporate his records 
in the present history. 
(To be continued.) 
JU H f fo. 
Catalogue of Canadian Plants. Part IV., Endogens. 8vo. Bv John 
Macoun, M.A., F.L.S., F.R.S.C. 
The first volume of this valuable work on the Canadian Flora was 
favourably reviewed in the “Midland Naturalist,” Yol. X., p. 102, 
1887. The excellent features of that volume are fully sustained in 
Part IV., which is the first instalment of Volume II. 
In this part the Endogens are dealt with, and the enriched 
experience gained by the investigation of new districts is seen in the 
more copious notes on the distribution of each plant. 
“ Since the publication of Part III., extensive collections have been 
made by James M. Macoun on the shores and islands of James Bay. 
Dr. G. M. Dawson has made valuable and interesting notes and 
collections in that part of the North-West Territories bordering on 
Alaska. The writer (Prof. John Macoun) spent five months collecting 
on Vancouver Island, and gathered much valuable information regard¬ 
ing its flora. That part of this additional information which is 
applicable to the Endogens is included in the present issue.” 
As in the former volume, the editor has not relied exclusively upon 
his own individual judgment in determining and verifying critical or 
new species. The assistance is acknowledged of several of our best 
known experts, such as Dr. Sereno Watson, more especially in the 
Liliacece and Juncacese ; Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., of Croydon, for 
assistance in the Naiadaceoe and Carices. The Rev. Thomas Morong, 
Mass.; W. H. Beeby, A.L.S.; and the veteran botanist, Dr. Vasey, have 
also rendered valuable assistance. 
