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REVIEW—THE FLORA OF SUFFOLK. 
June, 1890 . 
A tabular view of plant distribution through the five divisions 
of Suffolk and the border counties of Essex, Cambridgeshire, and 
Norfolk follows, but we should have liked to have seen the results of 
this tabulation appended. 
A comparison of the Flora of Suffolk and the three adjoining 
counties with the Flora of Holland is given, from which it appears 
that the East Anglian species are estimated at 1,339, and those of 
Holland at 1,466. Of these 1,120 are common to the two countries. 
The following Eastern Counties species are not recorded for Holland:— 
Arenaria leptoclados, Lathyrus hirsutus , Peucedanum palustre , Galium 
Vaillantii, Diotis viaritivia, Verbascum pulverulentum , Melampyrum 
cristatum,Chenopodium botryodes,Statice caspia, ActinocarpusDamasonium , 
Potamogeton trichoides, Lastrea uliginosa , Fumaria parviflora, F. Vaillantii , 
Ulex nanus , Trifolium sujfocatum , Verbascum virgatum , Veronica spicata, 
and Ophrys aranifera. 
Muscari racemosum in Suffolk is represented by M. botryodes, and 
Frankenia Icevis by F. pulverulenta in Holland. 
Twenty pages are devoted to an account of the progress of 
botanical study in Suffolk, which, despite the modest reference to it 
in the preface, is excellently done. 
The book is printed in a bold but not altogether pleasing type, and 
is fairly free from misprints. The writer, Dr. Hind, has fallen into 
an error in the endeavour to avoid ungrammatical Latin, and 
written the varietal names with the initial letter of the genus before 
them as if they were species, or rather as if the authority who 
described them had named them as species; for instance, under 
Ranunculus Flammula , is given “form R. pseudo-jluitans, Syme,” the 
fact being that Syme described it as var. pseudo-jluitans. Under 
R. acris, L., var. R. tomophyllus , Jord. is correct, for Jordan 
described it as a species, and Dr. Hind follows general custom in 
reducing it to a variety; so, too, quite correctly is given R.parvulus , L., 
under R. hirsutus , Curt., but the older name is R. sardous , Crantz, 
quoted here as the synonym. As instances of the errors may be 
noted Polygonum pseudo-dumetorum , Wats. He only described it as a 
variety. 
No attempt has been made to bring the nomenclature into more 
thorough accordance with recent ideas, as perhaps it was felt that it 
would be embarking on a perilous voyage; but we shall have to face 
the journey, and the sooner it is attempted the better. 
A few of the authorities for plant names (for which Dr. Hind is 
not solely responsible) are erroneous. For instance, Linnaeus is not the 
authority for Alyssum maritimum , since he described it as Koniga; nor is 
Besser the authority for the white variety of our Viola odorata; Besser’s 
V. alba is a different species. Reseda luteola should be R. Luteola. 
Saponaria Vaccaria, Radiola Linoides , Potentilla Anserina, Circcea 
Lutetiana, Scabiosa Succisa , and Stratiotes Aloides require capital 
letters to the trivial or specific name. Trifolium ochroleucum , Linn, 
should rather be T. ocliroleucon , Huds. Potentilla Tormentilla has no 
