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 "828 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. seed, and are fixed quantities, not dependent on soil or situation, whatever classificatory term be applied to them. The following numbers appear to be certainly endemic, from information supplied by Mr. Dahlstedt : — 2, H. lingulatuni; 4, H. MarshalU; 5, H. ehry- santhum (allied to a Norwegian form) ; 6, U. centripetale ; 8, H. do- vense ; 10, H. farrense; 11, H. prox'uiium ; 14, H. scoticum ; 15, H. anguinum; 16, H.iivale (allied to H. sagittatum, Ldbg., fide Dahl- stedt); 20, H. j)etrocharis.'' We are glad to learn that the Exchange Club for Mosses and Hepatics, proposed in this Journal for February (p. 88), is now an accomplished fact. Those desirous of joining should communi- cate with the Kev. C. H. Waddell, Saintfield Vicarage, Co. Down. Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot's Flora of Dumfriesshire has made its appearance ; we hope to notice it in an early issue. The issue of the Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information has appa- rently been suspended, no number having been published since that dated '' February," but printed in March. The last part (May 15) of the Flora Brasiliensis is devoted to the BignoniacecB, which have been elaborated by Prof. Bureau and Dr. K. Schumann. James Lloyd, well known as the author of the B'lore de V Quest de la France, of which the first edition appeared in 1854 and the last in 1886, died at Nantes on May lOtli, in his eighty- seventh year. We have received the first part of a folio work by M. T. Husnot, entitled " Graminees," which is to be completed in four parts. It will contain descriptions and figures of the cultivated and indige- nous grasses of France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Great Britain, with particulars of distribution, history, &c., and, judging from the specimen before us, will be a useful addition to the literature of the subject. Mr. Druce has issued a prospectus of his forthcoming Flora of Berkshire, which will be published by the Clarendon Press, and is ** dedicated by special permission to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen." *' The work, which will extend to a volume of about 500 pages, is intended to be not only a catalogue, but a history of the plants of the county. The various botanical writers since 1550 have been pretty exhaustively consulted, and no pains have been spared in personally visiting nearly every parish in the county, in order to make the work as complete as possible. In the Flora about a thousand flowering plants and ferns will be enumerated, in addition to a large number of varieties and plants of casual occur- rence. In order to show their distribution through the county more completely, Berkshire has been divided into five botanical districts, which are based upon the river drainage. The plant dis- tribution through these, and also through the border counties, will be shown in a tabular form. Brief sketches of the topography, the meteorology, the geology, river drainage, and the physiography of the botanical districts will be given. The work will also include short biographies of the various botanists who have investigated Berkshire botany."