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FLORA OF SUFFOLK. 93
hence notice of Mv. Galpin's book in connection with Dr. Hind's
more ambitious ' Flora.'
Of Dr. Hind's book, the very opposite must be said, so far as
printing and general get-up are concerned. It is desirable to enter
a protest as to the cumbrousness which is becoming too frequent
in local floras, and which is as unnecessary as it is objectionable.
The local printer has hardly been well advised in binding his
advertisement into the volume, although he is less to blame than
those who supervised the work. The type employed for the names
of orders and genera is ridiculously large, and the arrangement by
which (as on p. 365 and elsewhere) the name of an order, a genus
or a species of plant appears by itself on the last line, the remainder
of the information following overleaf. The volume is further disfigured
by printer's " ornaments " of the crudest kind, and weighs
2 lbs. 6 oz.^no trifling drawback to its use in the field on a
summer's day !
The Flora proper, although it can hardly take a place in the
first rank, is nevertheless a valuable addition to our list of such
works, and bears evidence of careful compilation, although it somewhat
lacks in that personal and intimate knowledge of the plants
enumerated which renders Mr. Archer Briggs's Flora of Plymouth so
valuable and interesting. Prof. Babington and Mr. Baker have
afforded " very special assistance " with the Piubi and Roses ; and
Mr. Arthur Bennett has helped in "many ways," though we are
not told that the Potamogetons have been named by him. Dr.
Churchill Babington and the Eev. E. Skepper left material of
which Dr. Hind, with due acknowledgment, has made good use.
Suffolk, indeed, as appears from the interesting chapter on " The
Progress of Botanical Study " in the county, has received its fall
share of attention. Turner, Gerard, Parkinson, Ray, Buddie and
Smith, all record plants for the county ; while such local botanists
as the Cullums, Pitchford, Dawson Turner, Lilly Wigg, Henslow,
and the Pagets have contributed to make its flora better known.
F. K. Eagle is hardly correctly described (p. 487), as "of the
beginning of the present century," as he did not die until 1856;
and "the genus Cullumia-Lisianthus" (p. 478) is a curious
misprint. The number of herbaria of Suffolk plants in existence
is noteworthy, and Dr. Hind has made good use of them.
An interesting feature of the book is the " PaliBontological
liotany of Suffolk," based on the researches of Mr. Clement Reid
in the Cromer Forest bed ; the comparison of the Suffolk Flora
with that of Holland is useful, although it might have been more
complete. It is to be regretted that Dr. Hind has taken upon
himself to alter certain names, as in substituting Kpithijimis for
Epitliijiiinin, " as the latter is incorrect in form." And it would
have been well to have given the local English names in actual
use, and to have omitted such monstrosities as " Boehmer's
Phleura" and " Pucll's (sic) Vernal Grass" (p. 887). The
districts into which the Flora is divided arc the recognised parliamentary
divisions of the county, and are thus of no value whatever
for botanical purposes.