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Out of Doors. By the Kev. J. G. Wood. New Edition. 342 pp., 
6 plates, 6 woodcuts. Price, 7s. 6d. Longmans and Co. 
Mr. Wood’s heart is so thoroughly in his work that in his natural history 
rambles, whether they be in Regent’s Park or in some rural spot, he 
thoroughly carries his readers with him, and makes them long for the 
summer-time, when they too can search for insects “ under the bark,” 
or study the habits of “the green crab,” the “wood ant,” or “my 
toads.” Of the eighteen essays included in this book we like best 
those on “A Sand-quarry in Winter,” and “ Our Last Hippopotamus” 
—a description of the (vain) attempt to rear a baby-hippo, born in the 
Zoological Gardens. 
Colin Clout's Calendar. By Grant Allen. 237 pp. Price, 6s. Chatto 
and Windus. 
Under this fanciful rustic title our new scientific prose-poet, Mr. Grant 
Allen, publishes a series of about forty charming essays, chiefly 
botanical, on such subjects as “Primrose Time,” “Clover Blooms,” 
“ Thistledown,” “ The Kerning of the Wheat,” etc. To all lovers of 
nature such a book as this ought to be a continual pleasure. 
Botany of Malvern.— The following plants, most of which however, 
must, I think, be regarded as “ introductions,” but which are new to 
or rare m this district. I have met with during the past year :— 
Myosurus minimus, Barharea prcecox, Camelina saliva var. sylvestris, 
Medicayo denticulata, 2Iedicayo denticulata var. apiculata, Medicayo 
maculata, Crepis biennU, Loliuin ternulentnm var. arvense, Ceterach 
officinarum. — R. F. Towndrow, Malvern Link. 
Cuckoo Flower.— Your correspondent (p. 84) appears to apply the 
name “ Cuckoo Flower ” to the Avum ! A runk macu I at uni), &nd quotes 
Clare in support— 
“ And gaping Cuckoo Flower, with spotted, leaves, 
Seems blushing of the singing it has heard.” 
And— 
“ Bedlam Cowslips and Cuckoos, 
With f recit’d lip and hoolced nose. 
Growing safe near the hazel of thickets and woods.” 
The words I have italicised appear to apply, in the first quotation 
equally well, and in the second far better, to the early purple Orchis 
(Orchis mascula), and, I believe, it is to this plant that the lines refer. 
Certain it is that here, in North Oxon, the adjoining county to 
Northants, I have heard Orchis mascula termed “ Cuckoo Flower,” while 
I never knew Arum maculatum called by any other name than “ Lords 
and Ladies,” which is doubtless, as your correspondent remarks, “ the 
most widely distributed of its many titles.” —Oliver V. Aplin, Great 
Bourton, near Banbury, 9th April, 1883. 
