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Notes on Recent Literature. 
branches are used for making baskets, and the leaves as fodder for 
cattle; while boys smoke the dried stems.” In many cases, the 
authors give distinguishing characters for closely allied species ; 
but it would appear that, in a number of cases, the distinctions are 
simply taken from the standard floras. Many of the distinctions 
given are faulty or worthless, as with regard to the oaks, the 
birches, the elms, the poplars, the gentians, the primulas, and many 
others. The book is accompanied by a map showing the “ botanical 
districts” and the gains and losses in area to the couuty since 1832. 
The title of the book is, of course, in imitation of Edwin Lees’ 
“ Botany of Worcestershire.” Whilst such a title was perhaps 
admissible in 1867, it is rather an affectation to use it to-day. 
The “ Flora of Cornwall ” limits its records to flowering plants 
and ferns. A useful introduction gives short accounts of the 
topography of the district, the climate, the geology, a “ history of 
botanical research in Cornwall,” the “ botanical districts,” a list of 
books, manuscripts, herbaria, etc., quoted, and a capital statistical 
summary. The flora records 1180 species, of which 953 are said to 
be natives, 64 colonists, 46 aliens, 16 casuals, and 101 “denizens.” 
This classification is said to be in accordance with the plan formu¬ 
lated by H. C. Watson; but as in the case of the Botany of Wor¬ 
cestershire, the term “ denizen ” is used in a sense quite different 
from that of the precise definition given by Watson, who would not 
have considered Lycium chinense and Oinphalodes verna as denizens 
but as aliens. H. C. Watson defined a “ denizen ” as a plant 
only “ liable to some suspicion of having been originally 
introduced;” whereas an “alien” is one which has been “pre¬ 
sumably introduced.” “In the following table ” (p. lxxx.), “a 
comparison is instituted between the types of distribution occurring 
in Great Britain as a whole, and in Guernsey and Cornwall res¬ 
pectively. The figures for Guernsey are taken fromMr. Marquand’s 
flora of that island ” :— 
Types. Gt 
Britain. 
Guernsey. 
Cornwall. 
British 
532 
394 
515 
English 
409 
179 
286 
Scottish 
81 
2 
16 
Intermediate 
37 
0 
7 
Highland 
120 
0 
0 
Germanic ... 
127 
18 
28 
Atlantic 
70 
38 
60 
Local or doubtful 
49 
5 
0 
Totals 
1425 
636 
912 
The following twenty plants occurring 
recorded for any other county in Britain ” 
in Cornwall are “ not 
Allium Babingtonii. 
A. sibiricum. 
Artemisia stelleriana. 
Broams maximus. 
Chara fragifera. 
Echium plantagineum. 
Erica vagans. 
Fumaria occiilentalis. 
Herniaria ciliata. 
funcus capitatus. 
ff uncus pygmecus. 
Lavateria cretica. 
Narcissus odorus. 
Nitella hyalin a. 
Ornithopus pinnatus. 
Pinguicula grandiflora. 
Scabiosa maritiina. 
Trifolium Molinerii. 
T. Bocconi. 
T. strictum , 
