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92 FLORA OF SUFFOLK.
correctly determiued, P. Friesii Rup. = P. pusillus major Fries =;
P. wucronatus Auct. Yet Smith lias it under lucevs, with a query,
in one book ; and under hetemjihijUns, with a query, in another !
Here is an example of how utterly untrustworthy these names are
without specimens. Smith's own herbarium gives no help or clue
to any of these plants. Arthur Bennett.
PoTAMOGETON TucKERMANi Robbins (1868). — As our American
friends are much exercised respecting the earliest names their
plants ought to bear, it may be well to record that this species is
the P. confervoides of Eeicbenbach's ' Icones,' vol. 7, according to
Gay's herbarium at Kew. As Eeichenbach describes it, I suppose
it must bear his name, which is certainly more appropriate than
most names are. Arthur Bennett.
Pringsheimia Rke.—The fact is not mentioned in the review of
Eeinke's 'Atlas Deutscher Meeresalgen' in your last number, and
appears to have escaped the notice of other algologists, that the
name Pruuisheimia has already been appropriated by H. C. Wood
(' Contribution to the History of the Freshwater Algse of North
America,' p. 195), for a genus of CEdogoniacfe. If, therefore,
Eeinke's genus is to be retained, some other name must be found
for it. Alfred W. Bennett.
NOTICES OF BOOKS.
The Flora of Suffolk ; a Toj)0(jrapMcal Enumeration of the Plants
of the County, showing the Results of former Observations and
of the most recent Researches. By W. M. Hind, LL.D.
map.
London : Gurney & Jackson. 8vo, pp. xxxiv. 508 ;
An Account of the Flowerivrj Pla)its, Ferns and Allies of Harleston
[Norfolk] . Compiled and edited by the Eev. Francis
William Galpin, M.A., F.L.S. London: Bartlett & Co.
8vo, pp. 157.
The second of these volumes was prepared for the members of
the Harleston Botanical Club, to whom it is dedicated. It contains
certain features, such as " Hints to Collectors " and notes on
books dealing with British botany in general, which are not usual in
local floras, bat which are likely to be useful to those for whom it is
specially intended. The introduction deals with local features,
climatic, geological and botanical. The enumeration of plants
makes no pretence to be critical, but gives an impression of care
and of accuracy in small matters ; while the clean typography and
careful printing prepossess one in favour of the book. The "abbreviations
" employed to denote contributors and records are
needlessly puzzling. " WA," for example, stands for ' Withering's
Arrangement'; "DC," for *A Catalogue of Plants found in
Dickleburgh '
! and so on. The nomenclature has been to a great
extent brought up to date. A large portion of the six (not eight, as
stated by Dr. Hind) mile radius from Harleston, to the investigation
of which the Botanical Club devotes itself, is in Suffolk