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' >iEW PUBLICATIOKS.
spheres of life and labour,—a man who, through the years of a long
life, devoted his best energies, with unflagging persistence, to the highest
objects, whom none knew but to love, and none named but to praise.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
J. G. B.
Flora of Devon and Cornwall. By J. "\V. N. Keys. Part 2 : 1867.
Part 3 : 1868.
In our fourth volume, pp. 381-383, we noticed the first part of
this Plora, which contained the Orders RanunculacecB to Geraniacets ;
in the present parts the enumeration is continued to the end of the
CoiiipositcB.
Several suggestions made in the above-mentioned review have been
adopted by the author, and the two parts now under notice are in
many respects considerable improvements on their predecessors. Many
more local works are quoted, and the list of contributors is much in-
creased ; the arrangement of the localities has been altered for the
better, and more care is taken in quoting authorities, though there is
still room for improvement in this respect.
About 375 species are enumerated in these two parts, Babingtou's
' Manual ' being the standard employed ; there are, however, several
doubtful natives, and probable errors of observation, included in this
number.
A search through the ante-Linnsean authors would probably add a
few more species to the Flora ; e.g. dL Cornwall locality for Diotis riiari-
iima is given by Eay in the first edition of his Catalogus Plant.
Auglia?, p. 136.
We hope Mr. Keys will be able to finish his work ; would it not be
better to page continuously, instead of beginning a fi'esh paging ^vith
new parts as is done in Part 3 ?
Enliten Projlit pa Namnforbhtring . By
1867.
S. 0. Lindberg. Helsingfors :
In this contribution to correct nomenclature its author does that
justice to S. F. Gray, author of the ' Natural Arrangement of British
Plants,' for one genus of Hepuiicce, which had already been done in