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CURRENT LITERATURE. 215 or with the title on the wrong margin. There are also errors in the plates which a more careful revision as they were being printed would have disclosed. We think too that it would have made the volume more useful if every species of Vol. I had been at least mentioned again, and not only those which required a note. The index might then have contained reference to Vol. I direct, instead of being confined to the pages of the present volume and plates in II. But while we point out these imperfections, which may no doubt justly be put down in part at least to the author's ill-health, we have only praise for the book as a whole and for the author's zeal in producing such a work in his spare time. It contains much that is of scientific value, with original notes on the natural history or habit of the species never before made known, and by making the identification of these plants easy should render possible a further and fuller study of the ecology of this area. To the many real flower-lovers among the residents and visitors of these hill-stations this third volume will give, as we know the other two have given, much real pleasure and they especially will be grateful to Mrs. Fyson for the labour of love involved in drawing her 250 plates.

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