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 480 SYNOPSIS DEE MITTELEUBOPAISCHEN PLORA. not recorded for W. Perth in Top. Bot. Other *' new records" for the vice-county that he saw are Folygala oxyptera, Hieracium auratum Fr. (teste E. F. Linton), Lactuca muralis, Arctium 7ninns (the segregate), and Betula verrucosa, — all in the Callander neigh- bourhood; with Polygonum maculatiim by the Lake of Monteith. In this my first visit to Scotland, I found myself favourably circum- stanced for studying the Scottish Eubi throughout July, and in a future number of this Journal I hope to be able to give some account of the forms I saw. — W. Moyle Eogers. New Monmouthshire Brambles. — This summer I have found in open parts of Chepstow Park Wood Rubus Leyanus Eogers, not previously recorded for v.-c. 35. Another bramble from the same locality, which I sent to Mr. Eogers for a name, is '* i?. Lintoni Focke, a very interesting new county record." I also gathered this spring a form of Erophila prcecox DC. in v.-c. 34 ; it was growing in abundance on a turfy wall-top near Tidenham Chase. — W. A. Shoolbred. NOTICES OF BOOKS. Synopsis der Mitteleuropdischen Flora. Von Paul Ascherson, Dr.M. &Ph. Leipzig: Engelmann. 1896. (Band i. Lieferungen 1 and 2.) Professor Paul Ascherson, of Berlin, the learned author of the classical Flora der Provinz Brandenburg, and of a vast number of botanical papers dealing with very varied subjects, has, as his friends knew, for many years been occupied in collecting, sifting, and working out the materials for a flora of Central Europe. The first-fruits of these continuous and almost life-long efforts have just appeared in the shape of the two first parts of the Synopsis der Mitteleuropdischen Flora. The Synopsis is to consist of three volumes, each of twelve parts (or sixty sheets), and six parts or three double parts are to be issued every year. The completion of the work may therefore be expected about the year 1902. It comprises the floras of the German Empire, Austro-Hungary including Bosnia and the Herze- govina, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Poland, the French and the Italian Alps, and Montenegro, thus considerably exceeding the area of Koch's Synopsis Florce Germanicce et Helvetica^ which has hitherto been the one standard book for the floras of Germany, Switzerland, and those provinces of Austria which as long as 1866 formed part of the German Confederation. It is intended to be a critical compendium of our present knowledge of the floras of the area indicated, brought up in every respect to the level of the best and most recent research. The author has the advantage of knowing intimately a considerable portion of the area from field work, and of personal relations with all the more prominent botanists of the Continent. The Synopsis is confined to the Pteridophyta and Phanerogamse, the Thallophyta and Bryophyta of the area having recently been