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 BANXS'S JOURNAL. 511 specimens of the var. erostris from Eillingtoii, E. Yorkshire, gathered by Mr. G. Webster in 1889 and 1890. According to Mr. Dunn's divisions, some of these specimens would represent two varieties on one plant. Babington {Man. Brit. Bot. ed. 1, 176, 1843) named H. Balbisii [' H. glabra L. var. Balbisii B&h," His preface is dated May 1st ; will this take precedence of Godron's name ? — Arthur Bennett. Varieties of Hypochceris glabra L. (p. 476). — Mr. Dunn seems to have brought to light a new variety of this species, in what he proposes to call var. na7ia, since in the branched rootstock and the fruits all truncate, bearing pappus destitute of woolly hairs, there are two if not three good distinguishing features. The plant should be cultivated side by side with the usual form of H. glabra (one would be glad to know which of the names given under 2 a fits our usual plant) on light unenriched soil, to determine which of the seven or eight characters given are permanent distinguishing features.' I have gathered specimens that answer to the description at Mudeford, S. Hants, and also near Thetford ; but the Thetford specimens form part of a mixed series gathered partly at Croxton (Norfolk) and partly on the way to Elveden (Suffolk), some of which are small H. glabra L. — E. F. Linton. Montgomeryshire Eecords (p. 172). — From my list of un- recorded plants collected by Miss Jones in 1895, the following was inadvertently omitted : — Ballota nigra L. . Chirbury Road, Mont- gomery. — William Whitwell. Middlesex Plants. — While recently botanizing in the neigh- bourhood of Staines, it was my good fortune to find Stachys annual Erythrcea pulchella, and Echinosjyermwn Lappula, all of which I believe to be new to Middlesex, as well as Rumex limosus profusely distributed over a considerable space of unfrequented marshy land ; Mr. Hanbury kindly informs me that my naming of these is correct. . — E ► F. SjaEP.aBBP. ., ,..>u.,i.y .,, *.mi; ..,.- ,,i, ; i,-.,. -.,. ,,•.,■ ., vM oi jfeqjs aril moil b 9fJiii3aoj ioti ' i^ giifid odi ij3i/it .J mvu>u{.V .i ^o auovj 10 tilJ7/'0i-^ N* ->9Hrrjj'j moil -^h-AiUi) Hriqq.ijq odj io s^jvi . JilllOjjM flO 0B8I iuN.0TWM3^s.QM'yMUQ<QMm) vnnni ill .lin ;! ^'J^o'&r^HHl of the Et. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., dc, during Capt.  "' Cook's First Voyage in H.M.S. Endeavour in 1768-1771. Edited by Sir Joseph D. Hooker. With Portraits and Charts. f'^^*;'''(London: Macmillan. 1896.) Pp. li, 466. 17s.net. ji j^ .+ta IS a remarkable instance of the materials for a fascinating "book having lain perdu for more than a century, and of their eventual recovery and publication. The romantic story of the adventures of the original MS., culminating in its sale in 1886 by '^jjiord Brabourne, who claimed it as a descendant of Lady Banks, ^to an autograph dealer for &1 2s. 6d. ; its loss, the utilization for jihe present work of a copy made for Dawson Turner and secured %-^ Mr. Carruthers for the Department of Botany, — all this story is tol^ by Sir Joseph Hooker (and by Mr. Carruthers in a letter to him) in the Preface. Sir Joseph had been on a visit to his grand- ^latl^T in 1833 when jt ^j^8 being copied, and ^^e owe this volume