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 144 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. Vascnlaires, 1881, pp. ii, 22; and Muscinees, 1886, pp. iv, 78. Geneva : H. Trembley), which is the outcome of some thirty years of botanical research in the Pennine Alps around Chamonix. During his long residence in what is probably the finest valley in the world, Mons. Payot has made full use of his unrivalled oppor- tunities of studying the natural products of the district, and has published several pamphlets on its botany, zoology, geology, and petrology. As regards the two little books under notice, that on the Mosses is an enumeration of some 450 species, with their varieties, arranged in accordance with Schimper's Synopsis; and that on the Ferns contains 57 species, as well as the Characecs (seven species). So many localities are indicated, that tourists bent on col- lecting in the neighbourhood of Chamonix will, by use of these books, be able to economise their time to the uttermost. It is to be regretted that the proof-sheets were not more rigorously corrected. — A. G. Dr. Gunnar Andersson of late years has done such excellent work in tracing the flora found in Swedish peat-mosses, that we gladly welcome the little book — Svenska Vdxtvdrldens Historia i korthet Framstdlld (8vo, pp. 106. Stockholm: Nordstedt) — in which he has brought together in a popular form many of the leading results arrived at by Prof. Nathorst and himself. In our country botanists so seldom get beyond speculation as to which plant is "native" and which ''introduced," that it is refreshing to meet with a book in which the subject is dealt with in a more philosophical spirit. As the author is equally at home in the study of the recent and fossil plants found in Sweden, he is able to combine these two branches of botany, and produce an interesting account of the history of the Swedish flora, and of the influence on this flora of bygone climatic changes. Many of the illustrations, both of recent and fossil plants, are done by photo-mechanical process, and though not in all cases successful, some reproduce the characters, especially the venation and texture of the leaves, in a way that a draughtsman rarely approaches. Why is the venation of the leaf nearly always incorrectly drawn in our manuals ? — C. R. Mr. Hanbury has asked us to state that Part vii. of his Mono- graph on the British Hieracia, which was to have been published this month and quickly succeeded by another part, is again un- avoidably delayed through the serious illness of the colourist. He hopes he may be able to issue it either in April or early May, and future parts at much more frequent intervals than has latterly been possible. We understand that whilst the publication has been in abeyance the drawing and engraving have steadily progressed. Corrections. — The following corrections should be made in Mr. Praeger's paper on ' The Botanical Subdivision of Ireland' : — P. 57, line 4 from bottom, for ''W^exford," read "Waterford"; p. 66, line 5, for "1 to 10," read '* 1 to 40"; footnote, for "XXXIX. to I.," read " XXXIX. to L." ; p. 62, line 12, for " Mahgunihy," read "Magunihy." In the second line of Mr. Bagnall s paper (p. 72), " 1884 " should be " 1844."