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Appendix, 529 pages of really small print. In this Mr. Purchas is 
responsible for the notes and determination of the Brambles and 
Willows, Mr. Ley for those on the Boses and Mosses, and various disting¬ 
uished members of the Woolhope Club for the Fungi. This portion 
of the work reflects the highest credit on both authors ; is brimming 
with information gleaned by extensive reading, made charmingly 
interesting by the copious notes on many of the critical genera and 
species ; and all the way through the reader feels he has before him 
the l'esults of the experience and close observation of capable workers 
in Botany. The weak part of the Flora is the Batrachian Banunculi, 
which the authors have evidently shunted ; but the Brambles are very 
ably treated, so also are the Boses and the Willows. The account of 
the distribution of the Mistletoe is very full, Herefordshire being 
evidently its headquarters. This record is mainly copied from a 
valuable paper by Dr. Bull in the Transactions of the Woolhope 
Club, 1864, and gives in every case the host-tree upon which the plant 
has been observed, and the list is quite an instructive one. Long 
notes are also given on the Oak, the Beech, the Helleborines, and 
Juncus tenuis, which is an interesting addition to the English Flora. 
The account of the Mosses of Herefordshire, by Mr. Ley, reflects 
the highest credit on his industry and close observation. The list is 
a very full one, and many of the species recorded are among the 
rarest of our British species, one of these, Bryum versicolor, being new 
to the British Flora. 
The lists of the Fungi of Herefordshire, “which were originally 
compiled by Dr. Bull, and after his death were elaborated by Dr. 
Cooke and Mr. Phillips,” are the result of the keen search of the 
ablest and best of our British fungologists for a long series of years, and 
testify not only to the industry of the members of the Woolhope 
Club, but also to the peculiar fungus wealth of Herefordshire. This 
account occupies seventy-one pages, and comprehends the whole of the 
great groups from Agaricus to Myrothecium. 
The list of Fungi is followed by an Appendix, in which we have an 
account of the plants added to the Flora during the time which has 
elapsed since the earlier pages were printed ; a Corrigenda in which 
the comparatively few mistakes to be found in the text are corrected, 
and three Indices. 
The following summary will show the richness of the record in 
this volume :— 
Phanerogams 
.. 865 
Filices 
26 
Lycopodium 
2 
Equisetum .. 
6 
Characese 
4 
Casuals 
.. 63 
Varieties 
96 
Musci 
288 
Varieties 
20 
Fungi 
.. 1,097 
2,467 
The work is illustrated by a large and well-printed map showing the 
botanical districts, and three plates on which are delineated Epipactis 
ovalis , Epipogum aphyllum, and Juncus tenuis. It is well printed, the 
type being clear though small, and in every way reflects credit on the 
authors and their publishers. J. E. Bagnall. 
