REVIEW. 
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I. “ Several pastures near Penn’s Mill at Erdington ! abound so much 
with this plant as to be called the Garlic Meadows.” With. 
(ed. 7), 424. Banks at Hay House, Castle Bromwich, in great 
plenty, Purt., i, 179. Shady banks near Moor Hall, Sutton; 
New Park, Middleton; very abundant, Erdington ; banks of 
the Tame near Water Orton ; Kingsbury Wood ; Bentley Park; 
Brook End, Hurley; Blythe Bridge, near Solihull; footway 
from Knowle Station to Hockley ; Olton Pool, etc. 
II. Spernall and Oversley Woods ! Purt., i, 170. Honiley Brook, 
Y. and B. Salford Priors, Rev. J. C., Binton; lied Hill; 
Drayton Bushes ; Wilmcote; Henley-in-Arden, etc. 
NARTHECITJM. 
N. ossifragum, Buds. Bog Asphodel. 
Native : In bogs and marshy places. Very rare. July, August. 
I. Coleshill Bog! Part, i, 172 ; south side of Bannersley Pool, Perry 
FI.) Sutton Park, dying out in this locality; Hill Bickenliill, 
abundant; near Marston Green, 1883. 
COLCHICUM. 
C. autumnale, Linn. Meadow Saffron. 
Native: In damp pastures; woods and copses. Locally abundant. 
August, September. 
I. Packington, Aylesford, B.G., 635. Beanfield meadows near Sutton 
Coldfield, J.P., M.S. note B.G. Sheldon ! Rev. J. Gorle. Near 
Kowington, abundant, W. B. Grove. Abundant in pasture near 
Water Orton Railway Station ; pasture at Waste Mills, Small 
Heath ; near Birches Green, Hockley. 
II. Barford Meadows, Perry, 1817. Norbrook, Perry FI. Near Long 
Compton, Baxter. Iddicote Wood. Rev. J. Gorle. In a 
meadow about one mile from Brinklow on the Anstey Road, 
Rev. A. Blox, M.S. note in Midland Flora. Pinley, T. Kirk, 
Phyt., ii, 971. Oakley Wood, Y. and B. Armscote Meadows, 
F. Townsend. Alveston Pastures; meadows by Binton Bridges; 
Drayton Bushes, Drayton Rough Moors ; Oversley Wood; 
Bearley Bushes; meadows about Ullenliall; in woods and 
meadows near Allesley and Meriden. 
Var. ffore-albo. Meadows, Wliitacre. Bree, Purt., i, 183. 
(To be continued.) 
Manual of the Mosses of North America. By Leo Lesquereux and 
Thomas P. James; with six plates illustrating the genera; 
pp. 447, royal 8vo. ; 21s. Boston : S. E. Cassino and Co. 
This work is a record of the researches into the moss flora of North 
America by Sulivant, Austin, Lesquereux, James, E. Hall, and other 
eminent bryologists, and is one which every bryological student should 
possess. To all bryological students it will be valuable, but to the 
student of botanical geography it will present many points of great 
interest; and an attentive comparison of this work with Scliimper’s 
“ Synopsis Muscorum Europseorum” will afford much matter for 
scientific speculation. In going through the pages of this work one is 
